Chapter 4 Quiz

Question 1

What was the most burdensome domestic chore in middle-class antebellum households?

Answer 1

laundry

Question 2

How did participation of married women and unmarried women in the industrial workforce differ in the early 1800s?

Answer 2

Limited by childrearing needs, married women remained home-based industrial workers much longer.

Question 3

What was unique about the mid-nineteenth century magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book?

Answer 3

The magazine’s female editor promoted the ideology of true womanhood.

Question 4

By the 1830s, Protestant women’s organizations were sending money to

Answer 4

church missions throughout Asia and Africa.

Question 5

How did the Lowell factory system change after the Panic of 1837?

Answer 5

Factory owners increased the pace of work, cut wages, and began to hire immigrants to replace the farm girls.

Question 6

With the rise of the market economy in the early nineteenth century, men’s work moved outside the home, and women’s domestic work became

Answer 6

less visible due to the increased perception that only remunerated labor had value.

Question 7

Who managed household slave work and the feeding, clothing, and doctoring of the entire labor force on southern plantations?

Answer 7

The plantation mistress

Question 8

What was a unique feature of the Lowell system?

Answer 8

Young farm girls were employed as factory workers and lodged in company boardinghouses.

Question 9

The early nineteenth-century notion that a true woman was pure meant that she was inherently uninterested in what aspect of life?

Answer 9

Sexual expression

Question 10

What was one important impact of the ending of the transatlantic slave trade in 1808?

Answer 10

Spurred a massive internal commerce in slaves within the United States

Question 11

For American women caught up in the Second Great Awakening, the revivals often served as

Answer 11

an opportunity to express themselves outside the home in ways usually not permitted.

Question 12

According to proponents of true womanhood, what was women’s most important vocation, from which flowed her other special qualities?

Answer 12

Motherhood

Question 13

What problem stood in the way of the plan for the Lowell textile factories to hire New England farm girls?

Answer 13

Parents worried about their daughters living far from home and without their supervision.

Question 14

What work did the majority of slave women in the South do?

Answer 14

Field work

Question 15

Why did immigrant women prefer to be factory workers rather than domestic servants?

Answer 15

When the workday was over at the factory, a woman’s time was her own.

Question 16

Which occupation became overwhelmingly female in the nineteenth century?

Answer 16

Teaching

Question 17

How were slave women’s lives different from those of slave men?

Answer 17

Slave women’s sexual vulnerabilities were often exploited by slaveowners.

Question 18

How do historians define the cult of true womanhood?

Answer 18

It treated men and women as complete opposites, with no common traits.

Question 19

The nineteenth-century ideology of true womanhood

Answer 19

was considered universal despite class and regional differences.

Question 20

One reason Native peoples in the South were displaced in the early nineteenth century was that

Answer 20

Native lands were valuable for growing cotton and tobacco.

Question 21

To help weather unstable industrial depressions, middle-class women were expected to

Answer 21

hire fewer servants and do more of the household chores themselves.

Question 22

Which of the following ideologies best reflects southern society in the antebellum period?

Answer 22

Southern white women were supposed to be submissive to their husbands, who defended their honor and virtue.

Question 23

Catherine Beecher’s book A Treatise on Domestic Economy taught that

Answer 23

the woman’s sphere was equal in importance to any task a man might perform.

Question 24

The Irish were one of the few immigrant groups in American history in which

Answer 24

the number of women roughly equaled that of men.

Question 25

What was one reason textile manufacturers hired women?

Answer 25

Spinning fiber for cloth had been the traditional work of women.