Read this excerpt about Elizabeth Van Lew from The Dark Game.How does this excerpt develop the central idea that Elizabeth Van Lew helped expand the role of women in society? Check all that apply.
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It states how Van Lew acted as an important leader and manager at a time when women were generally discouraged from talking on those roles
It shows that Van Lew was dedicated to a cause outside of her family and worked hard for her beliefs
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- Paul B. Janeczko on the "Dark Game" probes such stories as that of Elizabeth Van Lew, an "aristocratic woman" whose disdain for slavery led her to make one of the most powerful spies in the Civil War. The author deals with all sorts of spy work: counterintelligence, replication, hacking, tools, sabotage, hidden codes, tracking and training. Some tales were told in more detail to younger audiences, including the successful use of spies by George Washington to gather military intelligence, the Union's work by Elizabeth Van Lew and the "hot-air ballet surveillance"during the civil war.
- When the Civil War broke out in the year 1861 the officers of the Union as well as the Confederate never could foresee the women's role in collecting information about enemies. However as women from the "northern & southern" states started to provide vital information on everything from the enemy movt to its military policy, they started aggressive recruiting by both parties. During the war, hundreds of women were working as undercover agents ready to sacrifice their lives to assist their cause.
- Union spy Elizabeth van Lew, an influential Member of Richmond, Virginia and society, was one of the most efficient spy The 43-year-old lived in the capital of the Confederate with her widowed mother in a three-story villa. Raised in the north, Van Lew took great pride in her "Richmond roots" However, in the hidden diary, she kept her opinions concealed in her garden, which she only revealed to reveal on her brink of death, she vociferously opposed Secession & Slavery. She was of the opinion that the distinctive and special position of Virginia as architect of the Union needed her to do everything to preserve and help the nation.
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