Chapter 3 Quiz Flashcards
In addition to boycotts, what other forms of political action did women take to resist British power?
Women wrote newspaper articles and poems encouraging others to resist unfair British measures
How did southern women’s protests against British imported cloth differ from northern women’s protests?
Southern women tended to produce homespun on their own rather than in groups.
Most women camp followers were
often poor men’s wives who could not function on their own financially.
When Abigail Adams urged her husband John to “remember the ladies,” she meant for him
to honor the ideology of liberty by giving women more legal rights.
How did the position of Native American women evolve in the post-revolutionary period?
Native men took up farming while Native women worked on spinning, weaving, and other domestic concerns.
What was the fate of some African Americans who turned to the British to secure their freedom during the Revolutionary War?
They were freed and settled in northern cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York.
Why were African Americans attracted to evangelical Protestantism?
The evangelical emphasis on spontaneous conversion was similar to West African religious beliefs.
After the American Revolution, many free black women in the North helped their communities by participating in
black institutions, illustrating that segregation was common in the North.
What two charismatic women led radical religious groups during the Great Awakening?
Jemima Wilkinson and Mother Ann Lee
What have scholars concluded about slave women’s religious experiences?
Slave women may have been significant in promoting conversion to evangelical Christianity because of their intimate roles in southern households.
Men responded to women’s efforts to organize and raise funds for the revolutionary cause by
pressuring women to express their patriotism through conventionally domestic activities.
After the war, why did slavery became more entrenched in the Lower South?
The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 allowed for the growth of more cotton.
Spinning homespun and brewing herbal teas and coffee were ways in which colonial women contributed to
colonial boycotts of British goods.
During the American Revolution, how were women camp followers generally treated?
They were considered useful to the army as long as they stayed in their traditional roles.
Some Iroquois women, such as Molly Brant, actively participated in the Revolutionary War by
encouraging their tribes to support the patriot forces.
Why did the Revolutionary War cause particular problems for Quaker women?
Quaker women suffered from their neutral stance, which arose from their pacifism.
How were slave women affected by the war?
Many male slaves left southern plantations to join the Continental Army, leaving female slaves to do most of the work.
The premise of the ideology that historians call Republican Motherhood was that women
have vital roles in educating their children for their duties as citizens.
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?
Colonial men initially praised women for their creation of homespun but later worried that women were too involved in politics and discouraged the activity.
How did the Revolutionary War affect the role of women?
White women’s status in the home and politics became a subject of debate after the war.
How did the Great Awakening of the 1740s and the Second Great Awakening of the 1790s affect women’s lives?
White women were given more latitude in religious expression and increased their participation in religious groups.
Why were slaves sometimes able to negotiate new relationships with their masters during the Revolutionary War?
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.
As northern states gradually abolished slavery, most of the newly freed women
found jobs doing domestic work or child care.
What was one effect of the Revolutionary War on the slave population?
It provoked slaveowners to be vigilant, making it more difficult for slaves to escape.
How were women who stayed home and did not follow the troops affected by the Revolutionary War?
Women often found their homes commandeered by occupying armies and bore the brunt of the soldiers’ demands for food and firewood.
What is a reason that women were denied the vote in most states after the American Revolution?
Women were assumed to be dependent.
How did patriot legislatures treat the wives of loyalists whose husbands had been exiled or had gone to fight with the British?
Most states presumed that a woman’s allegiance followed her husband’s and often plundered their land and personal goods.
