Mid Term

Question 1

The reasons for the occurrence of witchcraft hysteria in New England included each of the following except:

Answer 1

A serious downturn in the economy

Question 2

Changes in the lives of New England women in the mis-to-late 18th century

Answer 2

An increase in feminine skilled activities, Purchasing household goods that previous generations would’ve made for themselves

Question 3

Seneca “prophet” Handsome Lake suggested each of the following reforms except:

Answer 3

Adoption of the family patterns of white people

Question 4

The reasons for the decline in the birthrate among American-born women in the early 19th century included

Answer 4

A,B,D

Question 5

The main reason early factories employed mostly women was that

Answer 5

They were paid less than men

Question 6

The conditions faced by poor women in the cities included each of he following except

Answer 6

Being forced into prostitution in order to make ends meet

Question 7

Services provided to miners by women during the California Gold Rush included

Answer 7

Cooking
Sewing Clothing
Laundry
Provide Housing

Question 8

The ciriticisms of alchohol made by those wishing to prohibit its use included each of the following except

Answer 8

Alcoholism was a disease requiring medical treatment

Question 9

In 1860, the NY state legislature granted married women each of the following rights except

Answer 9

To obtain divorces more easily

Question 10

In the case of Minor V Happersett, the supreme court ruled that

Answer 10

Women were citizens but citizenship did not necessarily include the right to vote

Question 11

The reasons for the change in black women’s work included each of the following except

Answer 11

The rising birthrate which forced women to sped more time in the home

Question 12

The problems faced by the typical southern white woman following the Civil War included each of the following except

Answer 12

The loss of slave labor

Hyperinflation

Question 13

Married women who worked outside the home were criticized because

Answer 13

They were seen as taking jobs away from men and single women

Question 14

The reasons for the decrease in the amount of time women spent on housework included

Answer 14

Indoor plumbing
Domestic Servants
Declining birthrate

Question 15

The purposes of women’s clubs in the late 19th century included each of the following except

Answer 15

The promotion of unity among all women

Question 16

T/F: Southern women often acted as deputy husbands and represented their husbands in business matters while the men were away from home

Answer 16

True

Question 17

T/F: Marriage in New England was considered a civil, rather than religious, union

Answer 17

True

Question 18

T/F: English colonial women were considered to be the legal equivalent of children and the feeble-minded

Answer 18

True

Question 19

T/F: The Dutch considered husbands and wives to be equal partners

Answer 19

True

Question 20

T/F: Quakers believed that all people are equal

Answer 20

True

Question 21

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

Answer 21

True

Question 22

T/F: Women served the Continental Army as nurses, cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, spies, and (occasionally) soldiers

Answer 22

True

Question 23

T/F: The new churches of the early 19th century nearly all of accepted women as preachers and other positions of authority

Answer 23

False

Question 24

T/F: Women’s household chores were considered to be a natural expressions of their femininity and thus not “work”

Answer 24

True

Question 25

T/F: Primary-school teaching became an overwhelmingly female occupation because women teachers were paid only about half of what men earned

Answer 25

True

Question 26

T/F: Women were generally believed to be much more religious than men, and to have little to no interest in sex

Answer 26

True

Question 27

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

Answer 27

True

Question 28

T/F: The main jobs open to poor immigrant women were as factory workers or domestics

Answer 28

True

Question 29

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

Answer 29

True

Question 30

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

Answer 30

True

Question 31

T/F: Most labor unions did not seek women as members because they regarded low-wage women workers as a threat to men

Answer 31

True

Question 32

T/F: In the typical American household, the husband gave his pay to his wife who handled the shopping and bill-paying

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Communities in which family identity and property pass from mothers to daughters, such as many American Indian tribes

Answer 33

Matrilineal

Question 34

Communities in which family identity and property pass from fathers to sons, such as European cultures

Answer 34

Patrilineal

Question 35

A society, such as the Pueblo, in which married mean leave their homes and move in their heir wives' families

Answer 35

Matrifocal

Question 36

Long-term unions between American Indian women and white traders on the frontier were known as

Answer 36

Country Marriages*

Question 37

Women who came to Jamestown to marry men who had "purchased" them with a portion of their crop were known as

Answer 37

Tobacco Brides*

Question 38

English married women were called

Answer 38

Good wives

Question 39

Women who assisted other ladies and childbirth, and often served as the "doctors" for their communities, were called

Answer 39

Midwives

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Liberty's Daughters*

Question 41

The loosely woven cotton or linen clothing made by those patriotic ladies was referred to as

Answer 41

Homespun

Question 42

Women who accompanied the Continental Army in the field, including some prostitutes but mostly soldiers' wives were called

Answer 42

Camp followers

Question 43

A merchant who sold supplies was called a

Answer 43

Sutler

Question 44

The religious revival of the early 18th century was the

Answer 44

Great Awakening*

Question 45

The belief that men did certain things, such as work and politics, and women did others, such as housework and childcare

Answer 45

Separate spheres

Question 46

The religious revival of the early 19th century was the

Answer 46

Second Great Awakening*

Question 47

A person who believes that we are saved by our faith in Jesus through a personal conversion experience is an

Answer 47

Evangelical

Question 48

"Factory" work done in the home was called

Answer 48

Outwork

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Female Benevolent Societies

Question 50

A society, such as the slave-holding south, that is completely dominated by men is

Answer 50

Patriarchal

Question 51

Slave "marriages' in which the two spouses lived on different plantations were known as ________ marriages

Answer 51

Abroad

Question 52

The principal road used by Americans heading to the west coast during the 1840s were known as

Answer 52

Oregon Trail

Question 53

The establishments used by prostitutes in California during the gold rush were known as

Answer 53

Crib Hotels

Question 54

The "treatment" that emphasized cold baths and loose clothing for women worn out by too many pregnancies was the

Answer 54

Water cure

Question 55

The first women's-rights convention was held at

Answer 55

Seneca Falls

Question 56

The Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War was the saintly

Answer 56

Dorthea Dix

Question 57

The founder if the American Red Cross was

Answer 57

Clara Barton

Question 58

The argument made by suffragists that women were "persons" whose citizenship rights under the Fourteenth Amendment entitled them to vote was known as the

Answer 58

New Departure

Question 59

The system that provided for the complete separation of the "races" in the post-Reconstruction south was called

Answer 59

Jim Crow

Question 60

Many married women worked not out of necessity but for a little extra spending money which was known as

Answer 60

Pin Money

Question 61

Relationships between unmarried women who lived together and may have had a sexual relationship were referred to as

Answer 61

Boston Marriages

Question 62

A woman who sought to challenge gender barriers by participating in public life, earning a wage, gaining an education, etc. was known as a

Answer 62

New Woman

Question 63

Woman captured and adopted by the Seneca who refused to return to white society

Answer 63

Mary Jemison

Question 64

Indian Woman canonized by the Catholic Church

Answer 64

Kateri Tekakwitha

Question 65

Unmarried English Catholic woman who became a wealthy, influential, landowner

Answer 65

Margaret Brent

Question 66

Massachusetts woman exiled for holding payer meetings in her home and preaching!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 66

Anne Hutchinson

Question 67

Quaker woman executed for preaching her faith in Massachusetts

Answer 67

Mary Dyer

Question 68

New England woman captured by American Indians and author of A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs.....

Answer 68

Mary Rowlandson

Question 69

Wife of the British military governor of Massachusetts who spied on her husband!!!!!

Answer 69

Margaret Kemble Gage

Question 70

New York woman who took her wounded husband's place during the Battle of Fort Washington & now has a street named for her

Answer 70

Margaret Corbin

Question 71

NJ woman who replaced her husband on a Continental gun crew at the battle of Monmouth and was made a Sergeant by General Washington

Answer 71

Mary Hays

Question 72

Served in the Continental Army for nearly two years while disguised as a man

Answer 72

Deborah Sampson

Question 73

Slave who sued for freedom- and won

Answer 73

Elizabeth Freeman

Question 74

Author and advocate for women's educationn

Answer 74

Merey Otis Warren

Question 75

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"

Answer 75

Lucy Flucker Knox

Question 76

Female "reincarnation" of Jesus (PUF)

Answer 76

Jemima Wilkinson

Question 77

Founder of the "Shakers"

Answer 77

Ann Lee

Question 78

George Washington's favorite poet

Answer 78

Phillis Wheatley

Question 79

"A woman's place is in the home"

Answer 79

Catherine Beecher

Question 80

Early 19th century painter

Answer 80

Lilly Martin Spencer

Question 81

Striker against pay cuts who later became a later in the women's suffrage movement

Answer 81

Harriet Hanson

Question 82

Civil War teacher of emancipated slaves

Answer 82

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Question 83

Southern diarist whose writings give us much information about southern life and culture

Answer 83

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Question 84

Slave who gave birth to at least two but probably five of Thomas Jefferson's children

Answer 84

Sally Hemmings

Question 85

California boarding-house owner and restaurateur during the Gold Rush

Answer 85

Mary Ellen Pleasant

Question 86

Supporter if an anti-gambling and anti-prostitution vigilante movement

Answer 86

Eliza Farnham

Question 87

Founder of the first high school for girls

Answer 87

Frances Willard

Question 88

Founder of the first college for women

Answer 88

Mary Lyon

Question 89

Editor who popularized a new style of loose-fitting clothing for women

Answer 89

Amelia Bloomer

Question 90

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Answer 90

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 91

Former slave and powerful speaker who became involved in the abolition movement

Answer 91

Sojourner Truth

Question 92

Escaped slave who led 300 others to freedom and then served as a nurse and spy for the Union Army

Answer 92

Harriet Tubman

Question 93

Organizers of the very first & women's-rights convention

Answer 93

Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Lucretia Mott

Question 94

Civil War veteran who lived the rest of her life as a man

Answer 94

Jennie Hodgers

Question 95

Co-founder of AWSA

Answer 95

Lucy Stone

Question 96

Founders of NWSA

Answer 96

Susan B. Anthony | Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 97

1872 Equal Rights presidential candidate

Answer 97

Victoria Woodhull

Question 98

Newspaper publisher who campaigned, without success, to make lynching a federal crime

Answer 98

Ida Wells-Barnett

Question 99

"The Witch of Wall Street"

Answer 99

Hetty Robinson Green

Question 100

President of the Organization WTCU

Answer 100

Frances Willard

Question 101

Chairperson of the Board of Lady Managers

Answer 101

Bertha Palmer

Question 102

Architect of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

Answer 102

Sophia Hayden

Question 103

Essay: Describe in detail the changes in women's occupations that occured in the late 19th century

Answer 103

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