Mid Term Flashcards
The reasons for the occurrence of witchcraft hysteria in New England included each of the following except:
A serious downturn in the economy
Changes in the lives of New England women in the mis-to-late 18th century
An increase in feminine skilled activities, Purchasing household goods that previous generations would’ve made for themselves
Seneca “prophet” Handsome Lake suggested each of the following reforms except:
Adoption of the family patterns of white people
The reasons for the decline in the birthrate among American-born women in the early 19th century included
A,B,D
The main reason early factories employed mostly women was that
They were paid less than men
The conditions faced by poor women in the cities included each of he following except
Being forced into prostitution in order to make ends meet
Services provided to miners by women during the California Gold Rush included
Cooking
Sewing Clothing
Laundry
Provide Housing
The ciriticisms of alchohol made by those wishing to prohibit its use included each of the following except
Alcoholism was a disease requiring medical treatment
In 1860, the NY state legislature granted married women each of the following rights except
To obtain divorces more easily
In the case of Minor V Happersett, the supreme court ruled that
Women were citizens but citizenship did not necessarily include the right to vote
The reasons for the change in black women’s work included each of the following except
The rising birthrate which forced women to sped more time in the home
The problems faced by the typical southern white woman following the Civil War included each of the following except
The loss of slave labor
Hyperinflation
Married women who worked outside the home were criticized because
They were seen as taking jobs away from men and single women
The reasons for the decrease in the amount of time women spent on housework included
Indoor plumbing
Domestic Servants
Declining birthrate
The purposes of women’s clubs in the late 19th century included each of the following except
The promotion of unity among all women
T/F: Southern women often acted as deputy husbands and represented their husbands in business matters while the men were away from home
True
T/F: Marriage in New England was considered a civil, rather than religious, union
True
T/F: English colonial women were considered to be the legal equivalent of children and the feeble-minded
True
T/F: The Dutch considered husbands and wives to be equal partners
True
T/F: Quakers believed that all people are equal
True
T/F: Colonial women responded to the boycott of the British tea by serving herbal tea and coffee in their homes and encouraging other women to do the same
True
T/F: Women served the Continental Army as nurses, cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, spies, and (occasionally) soldiers
True
T/F: The new churches of the early 19th century nearly all of accepted women as preachers and other positions of authority
False
T/F: Women’s household chores were considered to be a natural expressions of their femininity and thus not “work”
True
T/F: Primary-school teaching became an overwhelmingly female occupation because women teachers were paid only about half of what men earned
True
T/F: Women were generally believed to be much more religious than men, and to have little to no interest in sex
True
T/F: Marriage were seen as a partnership with women taking care of the home and children and men expected to work hard and provide financial support for the family
True
T/F: The main jobs open to poor immigrant women were as factory workers or domestics
True
T/F: American Indian women who left their people to live with white men often found themselves abandoned by those men and rejected by their own people
True
T/F: The most controversial provision of the document by the delegates to the first women’s-right’s convention was the demand that women be given the right to vote
True
T/F: Most labor unions did not seek women as members because they regarded low-wage women workers as a threat to men
True
T/F: In the typical American household, the husband gave his pay to his wife who handled the shopping and bill-paying
True
Communities in which family identity and property pass from mothers to daughters, such as many American Indian tribes
Matrilineal
Communities in which family identity and property pass from fathers to sons, such as European cultures
Patrilineal
A society, such as the Pueblo, in which married mean leave their homes and move in their heir wives’ families
Matrifocal
Long-term unions between American Indian women and white traders on the frontier were known as
Country Marriages*
Women who came to Jamestown to marry men who had “purchased” them with a portion of their crop were known as
Tobacco Brides*
English married women were called
Good wives
Women who assisted other ladies and childbirth, and often served as the “doctors” for their communities, were called
Midwives
The colonial women who assisted in the boycott of British goods by sewing their own clothing and serving non-British foods referred to themselves as
Liberty’s Daughters*
The loosely woven cotton or linen clothing made by those patriotic ladies was referred to as
Homespun
Women who accompanied the Continental Army in the field, including some prostitutes but mostly soldiers’ wives were called
Camp followers
A merchant who sold supplies was called a
Sutler
The religious revival of the early 18th century was the
Great Awakening*
The belief that men did certain things, such as work and politics, and women did others, such as housework and childcare
Separate spheres
The religious revival of the early 19th century was the
Second Great Awakening*
A person who believes that we are saved by our faith in Jesus through a personal conversion experience is an
Evangelical
“Factory” work done in the home was called
Outwork
Charitable organizations that sought to protect young girls from the threat of poverty were
Female Benevolent Societies
A society, such as the slave-holding south, that is completely dominated by men is
Patriarchal
Slave “marriages’ in which the two spouses lived on different plantations were known as ________ marriages
Abroad
The principal road used by Americans heading to the west coast during the 1840s were known as
Oregon Trail
The establishments used by prostitutes in California during the gold rush were known as
Crib Hotels
The “treatment” that emphasized cold baths and loose clothing for women worn out by too many pregnancies was the
Water cure
The first women’s-rights convention was held at
Seneca Falls
The Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War was the saintly
Dorthea Dix
The founder if the American Red Cross was
Clara Barton
The argument made by suffragists that women were “persons” whose citizenship rights under the Fourteenth Amendment entitled them to vote was known as the
New Departure
The system that provided for the complete separation of the “races” in the post-Reconstruction south was called
Jim Crow
Many married women worked not out of necessity but for a little extra spending money which was known as
Pin Money
Relationships between unmarried women who lived together and may have had a sexual relationship were referred to as
Boston Marriages
A woman who sought to challenge gender barriers by participating in public life, earning a wage, gaining an education, etc. was known as a
New Woman
Woman captured and adopted by the Seneca who refused to return to white society
Mary Jemison
Indian Woman canonized by the Catholic Church
Kateri Tekakwitha
Unmarried English Catholic woman who became a wealthy, influential, landowner
Margaret Brent
Massachusetts woman exiled for holding payer meetings in her home and preaching!!!!!!!!!!!
Anne Hutchinson
Quaker woman executed for preaching her faith in Massachusetts
Mary Dyer
New England woman captured by American Indians and author of A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs…..
Mary Rowlandson
Wife of the British military governor of Massachusetts who spied on her husband!!!!!
Margaret Kemble Gage
New York woman who took her wounded husband’s place during the Battle of Fort Washington & now has a street named for her
Margaret Corbin
NJ woman who replaced her husband on a Continental gun crew at the battle of Monmouth and was made a Sergeant by General Washington
Mary Hays
Served in the Continental Army for nearly two years while disguised as a man
Deborah Sampson
Slave who sued for freedom- and won
Elizabeth Freeman
Author and advocate for women’s educationn
Merey Otis Warren
Told her husband not to “consider yourself as commander-in-chief in your own house- but be convinced that there is such a thing as equal command”
Lucy Flucker Knox
Female “reincarnation” of Jesus (PUF)
Jemima Wilkinson
Founder of the “Shakers”
Ann Lee
George Washington’s favorite poet
Phillis Wheatley
“A woman’s place is in the home”
Catherine Beecher
Early 19th century painter
Lilly Martin Spencer
Striker against pay cuts who later became a later in the women’s suffrage movement
Harriet Hanson
Civil War teacher of emancipated slaves
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Southern diarist whose writings give us much information about southern life and culture
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Slave who gave birth to at least two but probably five of Thomas Jefferson’s children
Sally Hemmings
California boarding-house owner and restaurateur during the Gold Rush
Mary Ellen Pleasant
Supporter if an anti-gambling and anti-prostitution vigilante movement
Eliza Farnham
Founder of the first high school for girls
Frances Willard
Founder of the first college for women
Mary Lyon
Editor who popularized a new style of loose-fitting clothing for women
Amelia Bloomer
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Former slave and powerful speaker who became involved in the abolition movement
Sojourner Truth
Escaped slave who led 300 others to freedom and then served as a nurse and spy for the Union Army
Harriet Tubman
Organizers of the very first & women’s-rights convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Civil War veteran who lived the rest of her life as a man
Jennie Hodgers
Co-founder of AWSA
Lucy Stone
Founders of NWSA
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1872 Equal Rights presidential candidate
Victoria Woodhull
Newspaper publisher who campaigned, without success, to make lynching a federal crime
Ida Wells-Barnett
“The Witch of Wall Street”
Hetty Robinson Green
President of the Organization WTCU
Frances Willard
Chairperson of the Board of Lady Managers
Bertha Palmer
Architect of the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
Sophia Hayden
Essay: Describe in detail the changes in women’s occupations that occured in the late 19th century
Before: Textiles and Domestics
