Chapter 3

Question 1

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Answer 1

Sarah Josepha Hale

Question 2

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Answer 2

Catherine Beecher

Question 3

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Answer 3

Lilly Martin Spencer

Question 4

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Answer 4

Lucy Larcom

Question 5

A young factory worker who went on strike in Lowell for their pay

Answer 5

Harriet Hanson

Question 6

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Answer 6

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Question 7

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Answer 7

Margaret Garner

Question 8

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Answer 8

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Question 9

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Answer 9

Sally Hemings

Question 10

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Answer 10

Harriet Jacobs

Question 11

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Answer 11

Francis Cabot Lowell*

Question 12

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Answer 12

Separate Spheres

Question 13

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Answer 13

Second Great Awakening*

Question 14

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Answer 14

Evangelical

Question 15

Factory type work done in the home

Answer 15

Outwork

Question 16

Charitable organizations that sought to protect young working girls from the threat of poverty

Answer 16

Female benevolent societies

Question 17

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Answer 17

Abroad marriages

Question 18

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Answer 18

Patriarchal

Question 19

Society for the Relief of Poor Widows

Answer 19

Established in 1799 in NYC to help widows

Question 20

Reasons for the declining birthrate among American-born women in the early 19th century (3)

Answer 20

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Question 21

Reason why women’s household chores were not considered to be “work”

Answer 21

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Question 22

Main reason why early factories employed mostly young, single women

Answer 22

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Question 23

Conditions faced by workers in early-19th century factories (4)

Answer 23

1. 13 hours
2. 6 days a week
3. $1.50- $2.00 per week
4. No benefits

Question 24

Reason why primary-school teaching became an overwhelmingly female occupation

Answer 24

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Question 25

Society’s opinion of women concerning religion and sex

Answer 25

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Question 26

Way in which marriage was seen as a partnership, despite women’s fewer rights

Answer 26

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Question 27

First workers to demand a reduced (ten-hour) workday

Answer 27

Women

Question 28

Conditions faced by poor women in cities (3)

Answer 28

1. Begging for money/coal
2. Living in small, dirty, crowded apartments
3. Carry Water and coal upstairs

Question 29

Main jobs open to poor immigrant women (2)

Answer 29

1. Factory

2. Domestics

Question 30

Reason why southern women had even less free time than northerners, despite slavery

Answer 30

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Question 31

Result of the lack of outside activities for southern women

Answer 31

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Question 32

Percentage of female slaves who worked as domestics

Answer 32

10%

Question 33

Reaction of slave owners’ wives to their husbands’ sexual exploitation of female slaves

Answer 33

They would be angry at the slave because they cannot say anything to the husband