Chapter 3 Quiz

Question 1

In addition to boycotts, what other forms of political action did women take to resist British power?

Answer 1

Women wrote newspaper articles and poems encouraging others to resist unfair British measures

Question 2

How did southern women’s protests against British imported cloth differ from northern women’s protests?

Answer 2

Southern women tended to produce homespun on their own rather than in groups.

Question 3

Most women camp followers were

Answer 3

often poor men’s wives who could not function on their own financially.

Question 4

When Abigail Adams urged her husband John to “remember the ladies,” she meant for him

Answer 4

to honor the ideology of liberty by giving women more legal rights.

Question 5

How did the position of Native American women evolve in the post-revolutionary period?

Answer 5

Native men took up farming while Native women worked on spinning, weaving, and other domestic concerns.

Question 6

What was the fate of some African Americans who turned to the British to secure their freedom during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 6

They were freed and settled in northern cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York.

Question 7

Why were African Americans attracted to evangelical Protestantism?

Answer 7

The evangelical emphasis on spontaneous conversion was similar to West African religious beliefs.

Question 8

After the American Revolution, many free black women in the North helped their communities by participating in

Answer 8

black institutions, illustrating that segregation was common in the North.

Question 9

What two charismatic women led radical religious groups during the Great Awakening?

Answer 9

Jemima Wilkinson and Mother Ann Lee

Question 10

What have scholars concluded about slave women’s religious experiences?

Answer 10

Slave women may have been significant in promoting conversion to evangelical Christianity because of their intimate roles in southern households.

Question 11

Men responded to women’s efforts to organize and raise funds for the revolutionary cause by

Answer 11

pressuring women to express their patriotism through conventionally domestic activities.

Question 12

After the war, why did slavery became more entrenched in the Lower South?

Answer 12

The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 allowed for the growth of more cotton.

Question 13

Spinning homespun and brewing herbal teas and coffee were ways in which colonial women contributed to

Answer 13

colonial boycotts of British goods.

Question 14

During the American Revolution, how were women camp followers generally treated?

Answer 14

They were considered useful to the army as long as they stayed in their traditional roles.

Question 15

Some Iroquois women, such as Molly Brant, actively participated in the Revolutionary War by

Answer 15

encouraging their tribes to support the patriot forces.

Question 16

Why did the Revolutionary War cause particular problems for Quaker women?

Answer 16

Quaker women suffered from their neutral stance, which arose from their pacifism.

Question 17

How were slave women affected by the war?

Answer 17

Many male slaves left southern plantations to join the Continental Army, leaving female slaves to do most of the work.

Question 18

The premise of the ideology that historians call Republican Motherhood was that women

Answer 18

have vital roles in educating their children for their duties as citizens.

Question 19

How did colonial men’s attitudes toward the boycotting of British cloth and the production of colonial homespun change as the protests against new taxes continued?

Answer 19

Colonial men initially praised women for their creation of homespun but later worried that women were too involved in politics and discouraged the activity.

Question 20

How did the Revolutionary War affect the role of women?

Answer 20

White women’s status in the home and politics became a subject of debate after the war.

Question 21

How did the Great Awakening of the 1740s and the Second Great Awakening of the 1790s affect women’s lives?

Answer 21

White women were given more latitude in religious expression and increased their participation in religious groups.

Question 22

Why were slaves sometimes able to negotiate new relationships with their masters during the Revolutionary War?

Answer 22

Wartime labor shortages and the British promise of freedom to slaves who agreed to fight for them gave slaves more power to ask for privileges.

Question 23

As northern states gradually abolished slavery, most of the newly freed women

Answer 23

found jobs doing domestic work or child care.

Question 24

What was one effect of the Revolutionary War on the slave population?

Answer 24

It provoked slaveowners to be vigilant, making it more difficult for slaves to escape.

Question 25

How were women who stayed home and did not follow the troops affected by the Revolutionary War?

Answer 25

Women often found their homes commandeered by occupying armies and bore the brunt of the soldiers’ demands for food and firewood.

Question 26

What is a reason that women were denied the vote in most states after the American Revolution?

Answer 26

Women were assumed to be dependent.

Question 27

How did patriot legislatures treat the wives of loyalists whose husbands had been exiled or had gone to fight with the British?

Answer 27

Most states presumed that a woman’s allegiance followed her husband’s and often plundered their land and personal goods.