John Locke had a more optimistic view of human nature. He thought people were basically reasonable and moral. Further, they had certain natural rights, or rights that belonged to all humans from birth. These included the right to life, liberty, and property.
Answer:
1. single women and widows had the right to own property.
2.widows received one-third of their husband's property when he died.
3. They had the legal right to live where they wanted and to support themselves in any occupation that did not require a license or a college degree restricted to males.
4.A married woman had the right to be maintained in a manner commensurate with her husband’s social status.
Answer:
In the Antebellum South, most slaves had difficult times characterized by poverty, very long-work hours doing demanding physical tasks, and psychological and physical abuse. They also had their families frequently torn apart.
Women, as recorded in Harriet Ann Jacobs work, were vicitms of sexual abuse on a constant basis.
Not all slaves were abused, and some slaves acquired relative wealth and status, but they were the minority. The vast majority of slaves had extremely difficult living conditions, and most importantly, they lacked the liberty that the US Constitution was supposed to guarantee.
A result of humans' increased dependence on the land and fears of scarcity—to a decline in nutrition and a rise in infectious diseases
