History 111 - The Women in America » Fall 2021 » RQ 1

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Question #1
Why did African women become crucial to the development of permanent and inherited enslavement?
A.   African American women, like Elizabeth Freeman, were not active participants in the emancipation process.
B.   African women became crucial to the development of permanent and inherited enslavement once transatlantic slavery shifted away from working Africans to death, and African women were the ones having the children who would become enslaved themselves.
C.   African women were abolitionists.
D.   In 1830, African women created a petition and presented it to President Andrew Jackson..
Question #2
What did it mean for a woman to be a feme covert?
A.   She was an astute colonial feminist.
B.   Her legal identity was absorbed into that of her husband, meaning she had no separate legal identity.
C.   She was an undercover spy for King George III.
D.   Her legal identity was absorbed into that of her husband, meaning she took his last name and was given his political privileges.
Question #3
How did Mary Rowlandson survive her captivity? How was her survival and rescue interpreted as signifying?
A.   She sewed shirts and stockings for her Indian captors. Her survival and rescue were seen as a sign of God's blessing on the Puritan community.
B.   She survived by writing in her journal every night to reflect. Her survival and rescue was interpreted as just another colonial women's adventure.
C.   She survived by being physically active, such as playing the Native American game of field hockey. Her survival and rescue was intepreted as an affirmation of Puritan values, meaning those who are energetic are worthy and those who are lazy are worthless.
D.   She did not survive as she was killed by Metacom's sister-in-law. Her lack of survival and rescue was interpreted as colonists being cursed by Salem witches.
Question #4
THIS system, which traced ancestry and control of land through the female line, consolidated women's position in Pueblo communities.
A.   mamaknowsbest
B.   matriarchy
C.   matrilineal
D.   mamalinea
Question #5
What message was being conveyed through the "English manner" portrait of Pocahontas regarding the Jamestown settlement?
A.   The portrait conveyed that Pocahontas had a nice hat and a fancy fan. Don't overthink it. The portrait doesn't convey anything.
B.   The portrait is a farce since it was created in 1975 by an indigionous person to show what a "gracious lady" Pocahontas was in the 17th century.
C.   The portrait conveyed the possibilities of colonizing and "civilizing" Native Americans, which means they could turn into refined and "gracious" people like Pocahontas became.
D.   The portrait conveyed that Native Americans were accepted in English society as they were, which means that their traditional clothing and names were items that should not be changed.

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