Chapter 6

Question 1

Susan B. Anthony demonstrated the New Departure theory when she

Answer 1

convinced election officials in Rochester, New York, to allow her vote.

Question 2

How did the woman suffrage movement respond to the congressional debates over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?

Answer 2

Women split over whether to endorse the Fifteenth Amendment, which omitted the word “gender.”

Question 3

What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Segregation was legal and compatible with the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 4

What was the argument about woman suffrage advanced by the New Departure theory of the suffrage movement?

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Women were persons under the Fourteenth Amendment and thus, as citizens, had the right to vote.

Question 5

The National Women Suffrage Society was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in response to

Answer 5

Congress not including the word “gender” in the Fifteenth Amendment.

Question 6

Within the growing number of wealthy American families after the Civil War, the expected role for women was to

Answer 6

consume and display the family’s wealth.

Question 7

How did the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) treat working women in the late 1800s?

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The Knights welcomed women workers; AFL leaders believed that women should stay at home.

Question 8

What was a distinctive component of American cultural life for middle-class women in the late nineteenth century?

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Membership in a women’s club

Question 9

The Supreme Court’s decision in Minor v. Happersett

Answer 9

established that voting was a privilege, not a right of citizenship.

Question 10

A common criticism of working women in the late nineteenth century was that they

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took jobs away from male breadwinners.

Question 11

What was the danger that African American men faced in the reconstructed South for the slightest suspicion of disrespect to a white woman?

Answer 11

Lynching by a mob

Question 12

Many freedwomen responded to the defeat of the Confederacy by

Answer 12

taking to the road or advertising to find lost spouses and family members.

Question 13

How were the requirements for operating a typewriter different from operating a sewing machine?

Answer 13

Typists were required to have an education and a command of the English language; operating sewing machines required little formal training.

Question 14

How did the sewing machine affect women’s labor in the textile industry?

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Clothing manufacturing was divided into discrete tasks, and a single worker no longer made an entire piece of clothing.

Question 15

Black codes were laws passed by

Answer 15

southern states to limit the freedom of freedmen.

Question 16

Why did most black families choose sharecropping over other forms of agricultural labor during Reconstruction?

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Sharecropping allowed black families to work independently without direct white oversight.

Question 17

Why did “homosocial” relationships come under attack in the late nineteenth century?

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Physicians characterized the relationships as “unnatural” or “abnormal.”

Question 18

Why did white southern groups such as the Ku Klux Klan charge that black men were sexual predators who sought access to white women?

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To assert control over African American men in the aftermath of slavery

Question 19

How were elite white southern women affected by Reconstruction?

Answer 19

For the first time, elite white southern women had to cook and launder for their own households.

Question 20

Ida B. Wells was significant because she

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campaigned to stop lynching.

Question 21

What was Harriot Stanton Blatch encouraging women to do when she advocated “voluntary motherhood”?

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Choose when and how often to become pregnant

Question 22

What was justified by the “family wage” concept of the late nineteenth century?

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Paying men higher wages while paying women significantly less

Question 23

Which of the following describes the progress of Reconstruction in the South between 1865 and 1900?

Answer 23

After the U.S. Army withdrew from the defeated southern states, white-dominated legislatures reestablished white supremacy and instituted segregation.

Question 24

By the late nineteenth century, what gains in women’s rights had been realized?

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Women had the right to vote in territorial and local elections in Wyoming and Utah.

Question 25

The image of the “New Woman” emphasized “women’s work,” a term that meant women

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should be exclusively dedicated to motherhood.

Question 26

Why did many poor white women who worked in southern textile mills in the 1880s consider this work a privilege?

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Factories hired only white women, which made the work seem to be a racial privilege.

Question 27

What did the endorsement of woman suffrage by the WCTU convince Susan B. Anthony to do?

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Form one national organization of all women’s groups that supported suffrage