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History 052 - Role of Women in US History » Fall 2020 » Midterm Exam

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Question #1

Throughout most of history, until the 1960s, women as a whole were defined by the number of children they bore.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #2

Historians learn about women and common people, often left out of history, through primary sources such as

A. diaries and journals

B. birth and death records

C. All answers listed are correct

D. census records and Wills

Question #3

The practice in Native American tribes, like the Chumash and Cherokee, of passing inheritance through the mother to the children is referred to as

A. patrilocal

B. matriarchal

C. patriarchal

D. matrilineal

Question #4

Native American women in the 17th and 18th centuries

A. survived by hunting and gathering but did no farming.

B. maintained the majority of the tribe’s livelihood, responsible for food, clothes, home and children.

C. were valued only for the fishing nets they made.

D. tended to marry later than contemporary women in other places.

Question #5

Pocahontas

A. met John Smith with flowers when he first arrived.

B. learned English during visits by earlier ships from England.

C. contracted measles shortly after visiting Jamestown.

D. was very influential with her father and the people of Jamestown.

Question #6

The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas

A. quickly followed John Smith’s refusal to marry her because she was an Indian.

B. was probably a marriage of love but at the same time served diplomatic goals.

C. meant that her father essentially disowned her for marrying a white man.

D. created such anger in Virginia that the couple had to move to Maryland.

Question #7

English colonists began to judge Native American women by European standards describing them as

A. poor mothers who neglected their children to attend work.

B. lazy and self absorbed.

C. no match for the European women in the fields.

D. heathen savages and sexual deviants.

Question #8

Female indentured servants in the English colonies

A. were exempt from field work, mostly tending to domestic duties.

B. soon became more numerous than male indentured servants in the South.

C. were required to work for a master for 4-7 years and were often sexually abused.

D. were required to be set free by their owners if they got married and had children.

Question #9

Women defined in English common law as “feme covert”

A. were often listed in court cases against men who were trying to cheat them in business.

B. were not responsible for running the house and helping in the fields when needed.

C. were considered their husbands property, covered under the law with no legal status of their own.

D. were single and had equal rights to men in business and land rights.

Question #10

During the first half of the 17th century, English law rewarded male master for sexual abuse by requiring female indentured servants to add 2 years of servitude for pregnancy.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #11

Sarah Harrison, a 17th century colonial woman, had more negotiating power in marriage because

A. she was able to get away with telling her husband “No obey” during the marriage vows.

B. she knew how to use her feminine wiles to seduce a man into marriage.

C. she was the village minister who performed the ceremony to marry herself and her husband.

D. her father was wealthy and insisted she retain property in her own name.

Question #12

Women in the southern colonies were allowed to vote, sit on juries, and hold public and church offices on a regular basis until 1776.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #13

Margaret Brent quickly established a reputation in Maryland as

A. the town gossip who created chaos.

B. the first female governor in the colonies.

C. skilled in business and legal matters.

D. the most qualified person to work in the shipping office in Baltimore.

Question #14

Slave laws in the latter half of the 17th century established that children of an enslaved woman inherited the slave status of their mother for life.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #15

Slave owners viewed enslaved African women as

A. highly sexual beings available to white masters for sexual sport.

B. detached emotionally to their children.

C. All answers listed are correct

D. animal-like creatures who could give birth and go right back to work.

Question #16

Anne Bradstreet

A. wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead

B. was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.

C. was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.

D. described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.

Question #17

A. was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.

B. wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead

C. described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.

D. was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.

Question #18

Anne Hutchinson

A. wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead

B. described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.

C. was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.

D. was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.

Question #19

Margaret Hardenbroek

A. described her life as an Indian captive as surprisingly civil before she was ransomed.

B. was a successful business woman in New Amsterdam able protect her assets after her first husband died.

C. wrote poetry, frustrating Puritan women who thought she should be sewing instead

D. was exiled from Massachusettes for challenging Puritan doctrines of works and predestination.

Question #20

The accused in the Salem Witch Trials

A. numbered only 50 in a total colony population of 75,000.

B. were not even allowed to be present at the court proceedings.

C. were mostly women, either married or widowed.

D. were all slaves or indentured servants with little money or influence.

Question #21

A Puritan woman convicted of being a witch in 1692, could avoid being hanged if she confessed and would instead be exiled from the community for rehabilitation.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #22

During the Revolutionary War, this state wrote a constitution that for a time allowed property owning women and free black men to vote.

A. Rhode Island

B. New York

C. Massachusetts

D. New Jersey

Question #23

The “Republican Motherhood” philosophy recognized that women played an influential role in within their families and suggested more education would make their influence more virtuous for the success of the new nation.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #24

Abigail Adams

A. argued that girl's intellect was equal to boy's but unequal access to higher education created a gap

B. ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War

C. was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.

D. resented being called a "factory girl" and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood

Question #25

Judith Sargent Murray

A. was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.

B. resented being called a "factory girl" and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood

C. argued that girl's intellect was equal to boy's but unequal access to higher education created a gap

D. an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won

Question #26

Lucy Larcom

A. ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War

B. resented being called a "factory girl" and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood

C. an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won

D. was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.

Question #27

A. ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War

B. argued that girl's intellect was equal to boy's but unequal access to higher education created a gap

C. an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won

D. was a Quaker minister, active in the abolition and suffrage movements.

Question #28

Elizabeth Freeman

A. resented being called a "factory girl" and called for women to recognize the universal bond of womanhood

B. ran the family apple farm business well while her husband was away during Revolutionay War

C. argued that girl's intellect was equal to boy's but unequal access to higher education created a gap

D. an enslaved woman who sued under in Massachusetts state constitution and won

Question #29

The “putting out” system refers to

A. when a wife kicked out her husband for abusive behavior.

B. women who did piece work for factories in their homes.

C. a law by female reformers to keep men from drinking their wages in taverns.

D. when factories had lay-offs of employees.

Question #30

As part of the Cult of True Womanhood values, 19th century women were discouraged from drinking tea because it was believed to sully their Purity status by bringing out their baser passions sexually.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #31

Harriet Tubman

A. escaped slavery to avoid being forced into a slave marriage

B. was helped to freedom by her free husband.

C. carefully avoided returning to Georgia where she was born.

D. escaped slavery through the underground rail road and returned many times to the South rescue hundreds more.

Question #32

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 agreed to give “free” papers to runaways who had been living in the North for 5 or more years.

A. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #33

She defied medical officers in her efforts to convalesce the ill and wounded soldiers and raised $50 million to supply Northern troops with food and medicine.

A. Clara Barton

B. Harriet Tubman

C. Mary Ann Bickerdyke

D. Dorthea Dix

Question #34

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, freed all the enslaved in the United States.

A. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #35

This was the first state to permanently give women suffrage in 1869.

A. New York

B. Wyoming

C. Mississippi

D. California

Question #36

Ida B. Wells

A. argued that free blacks were fortunate to be given so many opportunities in freedom.

B. published the Red Record, the first documented statistical report on lynching.

C. was sent to college by her blue vein parents.

D. wrote an pamphlet that chastised women for trying to vote.

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