Evans, CH3-the revolutionary era Flashcards
John Adams
worried about the triple danger of “Elegance, Luxury and Effeminacy”
What is the “hook” story?
Edmund Burke, Nov 1776, addressing the British House of Commons, voiced his frustration with the rebellous colonies of N. America. “Still is not that continent conquered, he raged. Witness the behaviour of one miserable woman, who with her single arm did that, which an army of a hundred thousand men could not do – areested your progress, in the moment of your success.”
Referring to the unnamed woman who started the Great Fire in New York City.
In the 1760s and 1770s, consumer boycotts of British goods, especially the famous tea boycott, required that women exercise political judgment in the purchase of household goods.
This is where the political sphere and the domestic sphere colapses.
What is the thesis?
A fundamental shift in perspective emerged as women’s experience in the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women’s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusion increasingly problematic.
- Intro What general theme does the “hook” story in the intro illustrate?
That women have moved out of their exclusively occupied domestic sphere and into the political (and public) sphere.
What’s the basic time period of this chapter? Is it defined by a specific event, what are the specific dates covered?
The Revolutionary Era. 1760s through 1781.
List the Section Headings
Politics, Domesticity, and War
Aftermath of War: The Changing Mission of Republican Motherhood
Does just thinking about the significance of these titles give you any indication of how you’re going to answer the main question and how Sara Evans is going to support her thesis?
The second title sets us up to expect some notion called the “Republican Motherhood” is the answer to the problem of women moving into the sphere of politics.
What is the conclusion? This is located in the last couple of paragraphs and are set off of the main text with a small flag emblem. (Read this after reading the intro and before reading the sections to focus the reading)
- Women became educated in order to raise good republican citizens.
- That sense of special mission was further shaped by the religious sensibilities of a second wave of religious revivals between 1798 and 1826. The second Great Awakening with female converts outnumbering men 3:2.
- Women’s constitution is defined as an exercise of the passive, the quiet, the secret, the gentle and humble virtues.
- Emboldened by religious and national mission; After 1800 women built a wide variety of associations and institutions. Prayer groups, missionary societies, and mother’s clubs allowed women to begin to explore the dimensions of their emerging perspective.
- Women used religion “to define self and find community.”
- Women began to create a female culture and to redefine the meaning of public life itself.
What are the 4 things that Evans does in her writing?
- Is she setting you up with background?
- Explains the why of her thesis
- Explains the effects of something that happens. She articulated the effects.
- Answers the “what” … what the major changes were
How does the evidence presented support the thesis?
- Letters and diaries of literate women begin to refer to political matters
- 1760s a New York newspaper observed that even “peasants and their housewives” had started “to dispute on politics and positively to determine upon our liberties.”
- in the 1760s and 1770s consumer boycots of British goods, especially the famous tea boycott, required that women exercise political judgement in the purchase of household goods.
- Women exercised ingenuity by replacing British goods with homemade items, women could not only foil the plans of Lord Grenville but “Thus acting–we point out their Duty to Men (49)”
- In the 1780s the idea of republican motherhood stimulated a debate on women’s education and provoked the founding of female academies, the first institutional settings in which young women could receive serious academic training.
Does the section reading answer the question outlined in the intro?
Women become central in the success of things like boycotts, as they were the purchasers of household goods and food.
Does the next section apply the same tactics that you used on the first section to this section.
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How does this next section relate the thesis that Evans presented in the intro, but how does it realtie to the section you just finished reading? Is this section giving more/additional/different kinds of evidence that illustrate the thesis, or is it explaining the effects or the cause of the thesis, or the effects or the cause of hte main topic of the previous section?
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te·mer·i·ty
təˈmeritē/
noun
1.
excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.
“no one had the temerity to question his conclusions”
synonyms: audacity, nerve, effrontery, impudence, impertinence, cheek, gall, presumption; More
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late Middle English: from Latin temeritas , from temere ‘rashly.’
