Chapter 2 Quiz

Question 1

Chesapeake women who achieved wealth did so mostly

Answer 1

through marriage, and often remarriage, to wealthy men

Question 2

Englishwomen who migrated to the Chesapeake in the seventeeth century as indentured servants found that they

Answer 2

often labored in the tobacco fields because necessity overrode gender distinctions

Question 3

Most of the women accused of witchcraft during the New England witch hunts were

Answer 3

either old, poor, and powerless, or in a position of some authority and prestige

Question 4

Why did women in the Chesapeake colonies tend to die at an earlier age than men throughout the seventeenth century?

Answer 4

The hazards of childbirth

Question 5

What was a result of high mortality rates in the Chesapeake region during the seventeenth century?

Answer 5

A system of complicated blended families because widows remarried quickly

Question 6

In challenging religious doctrine and the clergy who interpreted it in Massachusetts, Anne Hutchinson also contested the

Answer 6

subordinate status of women in religious discussions

Question 7

How did New England women in the seventeenth century respond to the fact that few of them were proficient in all household skills?

Answer 7

They bartered among themselves for necessities and services, especially in remote areas

Question 8

What was remarkable about the demographics of colonial New England in the seventeenth century?

Answer 8

New England had lower ages at first marriage and higher fertility than in England or the Southern colonies

Question 9

Why did Quaker women in Pennsylvania enjoy relatively equal status with Quaker men?

Answer 9

Quakers believed “the Inner light of christ” was available equally to all

Question 10

The Chesapeake colonies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what happened to women who became pregnant during their period of indentured servitude?

Answer 10

They were fined and publicly whipped

Question 11

What roles did women have among Pennsylvania’s Quakers?

Answer 11

Quaker women were often respected religious teachers and participated fully in Quaker services.

Question 12

What was slavery like in New York under the British?

Answer 12

New York slavery was urban; slaves were isolated in white households, separated from partners and children

Question 13

A 1662 law changed the status of slavery in the colonies decreeing that

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a child followed his or her mother’s legal status

Question 14

When an Englishwoman had the legal status of feme sole, she

Answer 14

she had some legal rights before the law

Question 15

How did the lives of women in New Netherland differ from those in the British colonies?

Answer 15

Dutch women had more legal rights and economic authority than British women

Question 16

How were Native American women’s lives affected by participating in a “French country marriage”?

Answer 16

They retained the right to easily divorce while gaining access to trade goods

Question 17

Nearly three-quarters of Puritan settlers who migrated to New England were

Answer 17

members of families

Question 18

What was a contributing factor in the Virginia Company’s importation of 150 “tobacco brides” to Jamestown in 1620 and 1621?

Answer 18

The settlers in the Chesapeake colonies were mostly male, so there was a lack of available spouses

Question 19

How did slavery in New England differ from slavery in southern colonies?

Answer 19

Northern slaveholders tended to own only one or two slaves and sell them frequently, making it difficult for slaves to form families as they did in the South.

Question 20

What was required by the New England law concerning education?

Answer 20

It mandated that all children, both boys and girls, be taught to read so that they could study the Scriptures.

Question 21

What was the result of the chronic shortage of marriageable Englishwomen in the southern colonies in the sixteenth century?

Answer 21

Englishwomen married quickly but also had greater leverage in choosing a husband

Question 22

Which of the following was part of the Dutch concept of marriage in New Netherland?

Answer 22

A married woman had a legal identity independent of her husband

Question 23

What step was among the series of developments in VIrginia that led to the legal distinction between African slaves and white free laborers?

Answer 23

Imposition of tax on the labor of African women but not on white women

Question 24

Why did South Carolina planters use African women to establish rice as a staple crop?

Answer 24

Women had been key participants in cultivating rice crops in Africa

Question 25

The law shaped sex roles and sexual conduct in Puritans New England by

Answer 25

defining adultery as occurring only when a married woman was involved