Chapter 1 Quiz Flashcards
How did African slavery change in North America during the eighteenth century?
The slave population became self-producing, with more people who were born into slavery in North America than were imported from Africa
The growth of the transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century was facilitated by Europeans’ racial ideas that…
African childrearing and clothing practices were inferior to theirs and Africans were like animals
In Pueblo ideology, which factors contributed to relatively egalitarian relationships between the sexes?
Women’s sexual power and their role in food production
Why did many Spanish women see emigration to New Spain as a great opportunity during the middle of the sixteenth century?
They could better their position through advantageous marriages and easy inheritences
How did European slave traders first obtain slaves in Africa in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
They cooperated with African slave traders, who traded some of their captives to them
Pueblo peoples were matrilocal, meaning that
men left their mothers’ homes upon marriage to live with their wives’ families
How did the protestant reformation affect European women’s lives in the sixteenth century?
In Protestant areas of Europe, most female religious orders closed, confining women to wifehood and motherhood denying them access to education and status.
How were colonial French marriage to Native Americans in colonial times different from Spanish interactions with Native American women?
French men integrated themselves into Native American culture, while Spanish men forced their Native wives to integrate into European culture.
How did Europeans view and treat African women differently than Native American women?
They were not interested in civilizing African women through marriage
How were relations between the sexes characterized in traditional Native American societies?
Men and women had distinct gender roles yet there was also social equality
Why is Malinche a controversial figure in Mexican history?
Malinche is seen as both the mother of the Mexican race and someone who betrayed native peoples
According to legend, what crop as introduced to North America by enslaved African women who brought the seeds over hidden in their hair?
rice
What role did women traditionally play in West African society before extensive contact with Europeans ?
There were often responsible for cultivating major foodstuffs and textiles, and often participated in trade.
How did European’s impact on Native Americans affect their relations with Africans in the sixteenth century?
The near eradication of Native populations from European disease contributed to the decision to import African slaves to work on sugar plantations in the Americas
The sexual division of labor in Iroquois tribes
meant that women were dominant in the village
