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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. FALSE

B. TRUE

Question #2

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

A. birth and death records

B. All answers listed are correct

C. census records and Wills

D. diaries and journals

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. patriarchal

B. matrilineal

C. matriarchal

D. patrilocal

Question #4

Native American women in the 17th and 18th centuries

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

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

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

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

Question #5

Pocahontas

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

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

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

D. contracted measles shortly after visiting Jamestown.

Question #6

The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas

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

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

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

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

Question #7

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

A. lazy and self absorbed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. FALSE

B. TRUE

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

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

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

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

B. skilled in business and legal matters.

C. the first female governor in the colonies.

D. the town gossip who created chaos.

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. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #15

Slave owners viewed enslaved African women as

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

B. detached emotionally to their children.

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

D. All answers listed are correct

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

Mary Rowlandson

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

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

Question #18

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

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

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

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

Question #19

Margaret Hardenbroek

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

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

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

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

Question #20

The accused in the Salem Witch Trials

A. were mostly women, either married or widowed.

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

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

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

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. TRUE

B. FALSE

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. New York

B. Massachusetts

C. New Jersey

D. Rhode Island

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. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #24

Abigail Adams

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

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

Question #25

Judith Sargent Murray

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

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

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

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

Question #26

Lucy Larcom

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

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

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

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

Question #27

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

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

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

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

Question #28

Elizabeth Freeman

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

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

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

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

Question #29

The “putting out” system refers to

A. when factories had lay-offs of employees.

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 a wife kicked out her husband for abusive behavior.

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. TRUE

B. FALSE

Question #31

Harriet Tubman

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

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

C. was helped to freedom by her free husband.

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

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. TRUE

B. FALSE

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. Dorthea Dix

B. Harriet Tubman

C. Clara Barton

D. Mary Ann Bickerdyke

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. California

B. Mississippi

C. New York

D. Wyoming

Question #36

Ida B. Wells

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

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

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

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

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