Chapter 3 Flashcards
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Sarah Josepha Hale
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Catherine Beecher
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Lilly Martin Spencer
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Lucy Larcom
A young factory worker who went on strike in Lowell for their pay
Harriet Hanson
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Charlotte Forten Grimké
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Margaret Garner
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Sally Hemings
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Harriet Jacobs
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Francis Cabot Lowell*
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Separate Spheres
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Second Great Awakening*
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Evangelical
Factory type work done in the home
Outwork
Charitable organizations that sought to protect young working girls from the threat of poverty
Female benevolent societies
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Abroad marriages
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Patriarchal
Society for the Relief of Poor Widows
Established in 1799 in NYC to help widows
Reasons for the declining birthrate among American-born women in the early 19th century (3)
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Reason why women’s household chores were not considered to be “work”
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Main reason why early factories employed mostly young, single women
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Conditions faced by workers in early-19th century factories (4)
- 13 hours
- 6 days a week
- $1.50- $2.00 per week
- No benefits
Reason why primary-school teaching became an overwhelmingly female occupation
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Society’s opinion of women concerning religion and sex
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Way in which marriage was seen as a partnership, despite women’s fewer rights
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First workers to demand a reduced (ten-hour) workday
Women
Conditions faced by poor women in cities (3)
- Begging for money/coal
- Living in small, dirty, crowded apartments
- Carry Water and coal upstairs
Main jobs open to poor immigrant women (2)
- Factory
2. Domestics
Reason why southern women had even less free time than northerners, despite slavery
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Result of the lack of outside activities for southern women
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Percentage of female slaves who worked as domestics
10%
Reaction of slave owners’ wives to their husbands’ sexual exploitation of female slaves
They would be angry at the slave because they cannot say anything to the husband