Question

How did patterns of class and gender roles change in the 18th century?

Answer 1

America had no titled aristocracy as in Britain. It had not system of legally established social ranks or family pedigrees stretching back to medieval times. This was beneficial for most classes of people. As for gender roles, women were working as much as men but in different ways and jobs; their work never ended.

The United States of America did not have a titled group of aristocrats like they had in Britain and there was not a system that established, legally at least, social ranks, specially based on bloodline. Since life was not easy and it was not provided of a lot of the traditional behavior and class divisions, that sort of looseness transferred to genders. Women worked as hard as man, even though it was in different jobs.