As it pertains to Harriet Noble, what were her main complaints about her situation on the frontier?

Does she regret her move? Why or why not?

How does her story and understanding from the texts reflect the impact US territorial expansion had on many American women?

In Lowell, why does the factory worker compare her conditions to those of enslaved people? 

Is this a justifiable comparison? Why or why not? 

Finally how are these women’s experiences similar or different, though they about these events some twenty years apart?

What other experiences highlighted in this time focus on women’s labor and gender roles?

Harriet Noble – “A Woman in the Westward Movement” (1824)-  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5715/ (Links to an external site.)

 “Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker” (1845) – http://sanchezhistoryweb.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/7/22879914/complaint-of-a-lowell-factory-worker.pdf