<p>I know that AP tests, and most of the discussions about them, are over...but I still have a concern about one of the FR questions that has been haunting me. On Essay #2 (the one about the Second Great Awakening) what did the scorers want the writer to talk about for the "cult of domesticty" I defined what it was and how it seperated men and women, and then went to talk about how the 2nd Great Awakening inspired reform in women's rights, which weakened the idea of a "cult of domesiticty". </p>
<p>My question is if women's rights is outside the idea od the "cult of domesitity, and if I was wrong to talk about events such as Senacca Falls and the Declaration of Sentiments?</p>
<p>Thank-you so much for readdressing a past test (which you were probably trying to forget).</p>
<p>i think that cult of domesticity referred to how women were put in charge of moral issues (such as temperance) and second great awakening reinforced that belief. i'm not sure how women's rights could tie into that, but perhaps if you said that women wanted to vote as a moral obligation (which seems familiar in my brain... lol) then it could work. im not exactly an apush star though, so don't take my word for it. :-)</p>
<p>haha don't worry about it... at least you didn't call teddy roosevelt a democrat, and then cross out your explanation of big stick diplomacy because you were worried you had the wrong roosevelt. guess who did. :-)</p>
<p>What's the deal with this "cult of domesticity"? It seems like the CollegeBoard expects us to know a whole lot about it, yet hardly anyone actually knows was it is, partially do to the fact that my teacher or anyone else's teacher never explained it to us. And wasn't there a whole DBQ on this subject last year or so? Something's definately wrong with this picture.</p>
<p>My teacher actually spent a while on the cult of domesticity.</p>
<p>I think it would be a tough argument to say that the doctrine of separate spheres led to the women's rights movement 50 years later. Your best bet would be to say that it led to women's involvement in the abolitionist movement (because they were heads of morality) and that involvement later inspired women to fight for their own righs. It's a tough argument but it could be done, and well. I'm not sure if the cult of domesticity led to voting rights, that was so far off and the doctrine specifically said that the women's place was not in politics.</p>
<p>Thank you. But to clarify...what I said was that while the cult of domesticity existed, the 2nd Great awakening led to moral reform which inspired women to take a more active role in society and politics. I used Senecca Falls and The Grimke Sister's Equality letter (which I believe was written a few decades before Senecca falls) as examples to illustrate this change. However, I did say that while the 2nd Great Awakening did not alter women's political rights, it did increase their involvement in social issues, such as temperance and the anti-slavery movement, which resulted a larger role for women. So really what I said was not that the 2nd Great Awakening led to women's rights...but that it weakened the idea of the cult of domesticity</p>
<p>And also...the reason I felt that this applied to the question was that in the AMSCO book all of these facts are included with the cult of domesticty and the 2nd Great Awakening in the same section.</p>
<p>Thanks for you input...even if it dosen't help me sleep at night.</p>
<p>Don't loose sleep on my account! You have an awesome amount of evidence and it sounds like you answered the question well. I think you'll be more than fine.</p>
<p>From what I remember from my textbook, I think it refers to domestic work, which would be house work. I think that it was the belief that women had to stay and do house work. Many women leaders in the 1800s advocated women's rights, but they still supported the cult of domesticity. They thought that it was respectable. Talking about the Seneca Falls Convention is completely fine, but I think talking too much about it would go too far from the topic. I think that was last year's DBQ.</p>
<p>The Second Great awakening gave women more rights within the church. As such, they were able to have more responsibilities and attracted them into the church system. With these roles however, they were still expected to perform their other duties in the home as well. It was just another step into the direction of more modern versions of the cult of domesticity. Can't remember what I exactly said, but it was along those lines.</p>