Chapter 7

Question 1

Why was legislation passed in 1875 to discourage the immigration of Chinese women?

Answer 1

Americans assumed that most Chinese women were being brought over to be prostitutes.

Question 2

Why did campaigns against Native American tribes in the West intensify after 1865?

Answer 2

The U.S. Army had been released from the military campaigns of the Civil War.

Question 3

In mining and cow towns, working-class wives made money by

Answer 3

running boardinghouses that fed and housed single men.

Question 4

What was a result of the immigrant practice of sending teenage daughters into the American labor force?

Answer 4

Difficult family tensions, as parents demanded the daughters’ wages

Question 5

How did the lives of Hispanic women differ from those of white women in the West in the late 1800s?

Answer 5

Local Hispanic practices favored female property owning, and when widowed, Hispanic women did not remarry but served as heads of their households.

Question 6

The 1867 organization of the National Grange changed women’s lives by

Answer 6

offering leadership roles to women when they were recruited as officers.

Question 7

What successful movement did missionaries of the WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) help launch in Japan?

Answer 7

Anticoncubinage

Question 8

How did many immigrant wives and mothers make money?

Answer 8

They took in single male immigrants as boarders.

Question 9

Why did women activists find it difficult to end child labor in the United States?

Answer 9

Immigrant parents resisted such efforts because they needed their children’s income to survive.

Question 10

What did both white working- and upper-class women share in the Wild West?

Answer 10

A common purpose, which was to distinguish themselves from disreputable women

Question 11

What happened to the women and children of the Native tribes that resisted the encroachment of white settlers in the West?

Answer 11

They were killed with impunity by pursuing American troops.

Question 12

What role did women play during the Pullman strike of 1894?

Answer 12

Wives joined the picket lines to protest low wages and high rents.

Question 13

What does historical evidence suggest was the greatest burden for women settlers on the Great Plains?

Answer 13

Drudgery and loneliness

Question 14

The government-run boarding schools for Native American children in the late nineteenth century

Answer 14

forcibly educated children in the values of white American culture.

Question 15

In the late nineteenth century, some young European women emigrated to the United States to

Answer 15

flee overbearing fathers and arranged marriages.

Question 16

For what crime was Emma Goldman arrested and convicted?

Answer 16

Inciting a riot

Question 17

Florence Kelley was important in the late 1800s because she

Answer 17

worked to get workplace safety laws passed in Illinois.

Question 18

Hull House, the most influential settlement house in the United States, embraced the philosophy of

Answer 18

building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture.

Question 19

How did Americans regard the Japanese practice of shaskin kekkon (literally, “photograph marriages”)?

Answer 19

They regarded it as yet another indication of the allegedly low morals of Asians.

Question 20

What do historians mean by the term “Family West”?

Answer 20

The settlement of farm families in the West

Question 21

Why did southern Populism fail in the late nineteenth century?

Answer 21

Southerners saw cooperation between black and white farmers as a threat to segregation.

Question 22

What was the period after the Civil War like for most Spanish-speaking women in the Southwest?

Answer 22

A period of little change to their domestic lives as they continued to live much as earlier generations had done

Question 23

How did the Dawes Severalty Act affect Native women?

Answer 23

It created a land allotment program, which deepened the dependency of Native women on men.

Question 24

Jane Addams was significant because she was a

Answer 24

prominent leader in the settlement house movement.

Question 25

How did women help support the Spanish-American War?

Answer 25

Women raised funds for military hospitals

Question 26

What philosophy was embraced by Hull House, the most influential settlement house in the United States?

Answer 26

Building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture

Question 27

Florence Kelley was important in the late 1800s because she

Answer 27

worked to get workplace safety laws passed in Illinois.