Chapter 7 Flashcards
How did the lives of Hispanic women differ from those of white women in the West in the late 1800s?
Local Hispanic practices favored female property owning, and when widowed, Hispanic women did not remarry but served as heads of their households.
How did Americans regard the Japanese practice of shaskin kekkon (literally, “photograph marriages”)?
They regarded it as yet another indication of the allegedly low morals of Asians.
What role did women play during the Pullman strike of 1894?
Wives joined the picket lines to protest low wages and high rents.
What did both white working- and upper-class women share in the Wild West?
A common purpose, which was to distinguish themselves from disreputable women
Hull House, the most influential settlement house in the United States, embraced the philosophy of
building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture.
What successful movement did missionaries of the WCTU (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) help launch in Japan?
Anticoncubinage movement
What was the period after the Civil War like for most Spanish-speaking women in the Southwest?
A period of little change to their domestic lives as they continued to live much as earlier generations had done
For what crime was Emma Goldman arrested and convicted?
Inciting a riot
What philosophy was embraced by Hull House, the most influential settlement house in the United States?
Building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture
Why was legislation passed in 1875 to discourage the immigration of Chinese women?
Americans assumed that most Chinese women were being brought over to be prostitutes.
What happened to the women and children of the Native tribes that resisted the encroachment of white settlers in the West?
They were killed with impunity by pursuing American troops.
The 1867 organization of the National Grange changed women’s lives by
offering leadership roles to women when they were recruited as officers.
What was a result of the immigrant practice of sending teenage daughters into the American labor force?
Difficult family tensions, as parents demanded the daughters’ wages
Why did southern Populism fail in the late nineteenth century?
Southerners saw cooperation between black and white farmers as a threat to segregation.
How did many immigrant wives and mothers make money?
They took in single male immigrants as boarders.
What do historians mean by the term “Family West”?
The settlement of farm families in the West
Florence Kelley was important in the late 1800s because she
worked to get workplace safety laws passed in Illinois.
What does historical evidence suggest was the greatest burden for women settlers on the Great Plains?
Drudgery and loneliness
In the late nineteenth century, some young European women emigrated to the United States to
flee overbearing fathers and arranged marriages.
In mining and cow towns, working-class wives made money by
running boardinghouses that fed and housed single men.
Why did women activists find it difficult to end child labor in the United States?
Immigrant parents resisted such efforts because they needed their children’s income to survive.
Why did campaigns against Native American tribes in the West intensify after 1865?
The U.S. Army had been released from the military campaigns of the Civil War.
How did the Dawes Severalty Act affect Native women?
It created a land allotment program, which deepened the dependency of Native women on men.
How did women help support the Spanish-American War?
Women raised funds for military hospitals.
The government-run boarding schools for Native American children in the late nineteenth century
forcibly educated children in the values of white American culture.
Jane Addams was significant because she was a
prominent leader in the settlement house movement.
