Women's History Chapter 1

Question 1

Mixed woman of English and Creek. Married to 3 men, all white. She and her husbands opened a trading post with Indians

Answer 1

Mary Bosonworth

Question 2

An English Catholic Woman, never married, she became a very wealthy land owner, very politically influential

Answer 2

Margaret Brent

Question 3

Quaker who was executed in Massachusetts

Answer 3

Mary Dyer

Question 4

Quaker missionaries (2)

Answer 4

Jane Fenn, Sarah Morris

Question 5

Didn’t follow the puritans belief , holding prayer meetings preaching like a minister and flew out of Massachusetts for exile

Answer 5

Anne Hutchinson

Question 6

Captured and adopted into the seneca tribe when she was 15. Refused to return when the opportunity came

Answer 6

Mary Jemison

Question 7

A slave who managed to gain freedom and bought their own peace of lands and became very successful farmers

Answer 7

Mary Johnson

Question 8

Dutch colonist who was a successful business women

Answer 8

Margaret Hardenbroeck

Question 9

Taken captive and wrote a book about it called true history of true captivity of miss Mary Rowlandson

Answer 9

Mary Rowlandson

Question 10

Taken to court for promising to marrying several men

Answer 10

Eleanor Spragg

Question 11

Daughter of a chief of the mohawk and a christian women from another tribe grew up christian the first native american saint

Answer 11

Kateri Tekakwitha

Question 12

Identity and property comes from the mother

Answer 12

Matrilineal

Question 13

Identity and property comes through the father

Answer 13

Patrilineal

Question 14

The young married couple goes to live with the mother

Answer 14

Matrifocal

Question 15

Not actually marriages. Generally white man indian american women who decided to live together for live and have a family

Answer 15

Country Marriages*

Question 16

Women marrying men for drugs

Answer 16

Tobacco Brides*

Question 17

English married ladies

Answer 17

Good wives

Question 18

Married women

Answer 18

Feme covert

Question 19

Women who never married or widowed

Answer 19

Femes sole

Question 20

Helped coach women to give birth to a baby

Answer 20

Midwives

Question 21

Gender composition of Jamestown prior to 1620

Answer 21

first Africans arrive in James town
first saw women in jamestown
first democratic assembly in america

Question 22

Proportion of women who arrived in the Chesapeake as indentured servants

Answer 22

3/4 of women came from England as indentured servants

1/4 women came to marry a specific person for tobacco

Question 23

Important legal function often exercised by women in the southern colonies

Answer 23

women become a deputy husband and represent her husband in legal matters if he was away

Question 24

Taxation of women’s labor?

Answer 24

labor of black women’s taxed not white women in portions of the south

Question 25

Status of marriage in the New England colonies

Answer 25

legal relationships

Question 26

Could women in the English colonies divorce their husbands?

Answer 26

yes if they were abandoned and husband beat the wife severely

Question 27

Legal “victim” in cases of rape in New England

Answer 27

the husband of the women that had been raped

Question 28

Important legal function often exercised by women in New England

Answer 28

running their husbands homes

Question 29

Married women working outside the home in New England?

Answer 29

Not married women/widows

Question 30

Reasons for the occurrence of witchcraft hysteria in New England (4)

Answer 30

1. religious tension between churches
2. nervous because of indian attacks
3. the population is growing and puts pressure on land available
4. economic change

Question 31

Changes in the lives of New England women in the late 18th century (4)

Answer 31

1. purchase goods you used to make
2. increase in feminine skills “needle work”
3. some even married will work outside the home
4. widows own their own business

Question 32

Dutch view of the relationship between husband and wife

Answer 32

Equal Partners

Question 33

Legal status of women in English colonies

Answer 33

nonexistent they were treated like children or feeble minded

Question 34

Quaker view concerning equality

Answer 34

believes all people were equal/ pacifist