History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1852 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Law Allowed
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The idea
Women had severely restricted rights of property and legal authority, and until states passed property legislation in the eighteen forties husbands controlled wives' earnings and inheritance.
In practice
New laws granting limited additional authority, applied unevenly across the regions.
Where people slip
Unit 07 covers coverture, the doctrine underneath all of this. This entry covers the first statutory cracks in it.
Your place on the trail
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