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
