10-1-CH5-CivilWar

Question 0

What is the thesis?

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Women are citizens; their relationship to the state should be direct and unmediated by husband or children. Thus they directly challenged the doctrine of separate spheres at the heart of Victorian domesticity by asserting women’s public rights as citizens.

Question 1

What is the “hook” story?

Answer 1

Elizabeth Cady Stanton hld forth in ary Ann McClintock’s kitchen in Waterloo, NY on July 13, 1848… they called a women’s rights convention on July 19-20, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls

Question 2

1. Intro What general theme does the “hook” story in the intro illustrate?

Answer 2

That the movement to citizenship of women was built on generations of political activism on the part of women.

Question 3

Women’s Rights Declaration

Seneca Falls, NY July 19-20, 1848

Answer 3

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Question 5

What’s the basic time period of this chapter? Is it defined by a specific event, what are the specific dates covered?

Answer 5

1845-1865 A Time of Division

Question 6

List the Section Headings

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The Power of Domesticity
The Women's Rights Movement
Stretching Boundaries: Female Professions and Frontier Life
Southern Women
The Civil War

Question 8

Does just thinking about the significance of these titles give you any indication of how you’re going to answer the main question and how Sara Evans is going to support her thesis?

Answer 8

The Power of Domesticity
The Women's Rights Movement
Stretching Boundaries: Female Professions and Frontier Life
Southern Women
The Civil War

The history of women’s participation in and expansion of their domestic sphere through activism, along with their work in creating associations lead in a direct line to this demand for a direct relationship to the State without the mediation of husband and children.

Women are not only becoming educated, but they are wanting more control over their political lives.

Seems like the Civil War becomes the rallying cry for the activism of women and the springboard for an increase in political activism

Question 9

How does the evidence presented support the thesis?

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Question 10

What is the conclusion? This is located in the last couple of paragraphs and are set off of the main text with a small flag emblem. (Read this after reading the intro and before reading the sections to focus the reading)

Answer 10

Many groups of women, then, in many different voices were prepared to claim new liberties in a postwar world whose politics had been reshaped by the war and whose economy was rapidly evolving into that of an industrial giant.

Question 11

What are the 4 things that Evans does in her writing?

Answer 11

1. Is she setting you up with background?
2. Explains the why of her thesis
3. Explains the effects of something that happens. She articulated the effects.
4. Answers the “what” … what the major changes were

Question 12

Does the section reading answer the question outlined in the intro? How does the evidence presented support the thesis?

Answer 12

Women were responsible for children, the home, and morality, and the sentmentalized mother exercised her “gentle influence” in ways that contituted new, persuasive, rather than coercive modes of child rearing. The image of the female-centered Victorian home informed the efforts of middle-class reformers and missionaries (both male and female) who set out to change the behaviof of virtually every group outside the white middle class to fit this domestic mold. This debate on the woman question grew in the 1850s into a full-fledged women’s rights movement strongly allied with radical abolition.

Question 13

What aspects of the slave system and assumptions about race and gender allowed the Crafts to thwart the system?

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Question 14

How did the characters in both narratives (The Crafts and Polly Shine) reject and resist assumptions about black people that were fundamental to the slave system? On what personal resources did they draw to make their challenges?

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Question 15

What do these stories tell about the forces shaping love and other intimate relations among black people under slavery?

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Question 16

Victorian Domesticity

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moral authority, addressed drinking, slavery, ..

Women are different from men.
Celebrating the differences between men and women
Influence through Republican Motherhood

Question 17

Women’s Rights Movement

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Power of individual
Should have right to vote
Direct relation to citizenship
Celebrates the similarities of men and women: They are essentially the same.

Question 18

Catherine Beecher

Answer 18

Whatever we do, is the expression of the domesticity sphere… wherever you go, whatever you do is naturally ‘private’

Question 19

Undoing Coverture

Answer 19

Women are capable of handling their own property… in response to the Women’s Rights Movement. Crumbles on a state by state basis.

Question 20

New York Aid Societies and Republican Motherhood

Answer 20

Took poor children away for not being proper Republican Mothers… shipped them to the frontier. They thought that this was the reason for poverty.

Question 21

Republican Motherhood and the Dakota Women

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Question 22

Explain the basic differences between the ideology of domesticity and the beliefs of the Women’s Rights Movement

Answer 22

The ideology of domesticity hold to the separate spheres of public and private; even while expanding what it means to include activism and increased “influence.” Women’s Rights pushed for full citizenship, including the right to vote, for women.

Question 23

How did domesticity shape the lives of working-class and poor women?

Answer 23

Middle-class white women worked to impose their idea of Republican Motherhood onto the working class and poor through their charities and Reform Societies.

Question 24

In what ways did women (any group, with the exception of Native Americans) experience both expansion of female autonomy and male domination on the western frontier?

Answer 24

With the war and with a growing of an educated female population the frontier embraced women do teachers, because they could pay them less. Still men held property and political power.

There were more business opportunities in the form of saloon ownership and brothels. Limitations showed up in the form of forced prostitution of Chinese women.

Question 25

In what ways did gender roles in African-American slave communities differ from white, middle-class gender roles in the antebellum era?

Answer 25

Women are the thread that holds family and community together - for many reasons having to do with the lack of control over being “sold” which broke up many families. Another thought on why women held power inside their communities is likely that black women pose less of a threat in the minds of white men - therefore, they are more readily employed - just a thought -

Question 26

In what ways did African-American expression of sexuality differ from white Victorian culture?

Answer 26

They certainly seem more sensual in their expression. However, they also faced much higher instances of rape.

Question 27

What aspect of slaves’ lives was relatively free from control of owners?

Answer 27

Religion. Control over domestic care of family: Grew gardens, tended to communal life, and religious participation.

Question 28

Name one specific way in which black women in the south were affected by the Civil War (please do not list the obvious, “they gained freedom.”)

Answer 28

They became mobile as they sought free black communities and searched for family members - they were extremely resourceful in keeping their families alive. When men went to war in the South, the Confederate army often raped black refugees.

Question 29

Explain one specific way in which any women protested the effects of the war on their lives.

Answer 29

(Religion!) Women wrote to their husbands to return home to take care of their families. They signed and delivered petitions to politicians to end the war and return of their husbands.

Question 30

Does the next section apply the same tactics that you used on the first section to this section.

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Question 31

Does the next section apply the same tactics that you used on the first section to this section.

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