<span>The role of women (specifically white women)
changed dramatically during this time in the United States because
production moved largely out of the house and into factories, meaning
women stopped being producers and became consumers. Socially, this meant
that women gained slightly more independence. </span>
The idea of manifest destiny greatly helped shape the U.S. governments's policies of land acquisition, since this held that the US was "destined" to expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific--meaning that the US embarked on a series of wars with Mexico and confrontations with Natives that helped the settlers move west.
