Chapter 7

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Anticoncubinage movement

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

For what crime was Emma Goldman arrested and convicted?

Answer 8

Inciting a riot

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Building bridges between immigrant cultures and American culture

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

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

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Difficult family tensions, as parents demanded the daughters’ wages

Question 14

Why did southern Populism fail in the late nineteenth century?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

How did many immigrant wives and mothers make money?

Answer 15

They took in single male immigrants as boarders.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

The settlement of farm families in the West

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

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

Answer 18

Drudgery and loneliness

Question 19

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

Answer 19

flee overbearing fathers and arranged marriages.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

running boardinghouses that fed and housed single men.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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

Answer 22

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

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

How did women help support the Spanish-American War?

Answer 24

Women raised funds for military hospitals.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

forcibly educated children in the values of white American culture.

Question 26

Jane Addams was significant because she was a

Answer 26

prominent leader in the settlement house movement.