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History 111 - The Women in America » Fall 2022 » Reading Quiz on Women's Roles in the Antebellum

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Question #1

White women argued participation in Abolition movements was an extension of thier traditional responsibilities for children, and morality in the home. They were just continuing these traditions in the public sphere.

A. False

B. True

Question #2

Christianity was a big part of women's education--whether it was in first, secondary, or post-secondary levels.

A. False

B. True

Question #3

THe Abolition movement challenged traditional gender roles and concepts of spheres because women spoke to mixed crowds, which was taboo on many levels.

A. False

B. True

Question #4

The new market economy allowed for society to focus on citizenship as a moral value rather than on concepts of individualism.

A. False

B. True

Question #5

Catharine Beecher argued for a universal or natural sisterhood because she said women's morality and social role cut across class, region, and religious lines.

A. False

B. True

Question #6

White, middle-class women felt alienated and left out of the Second Great Awakening and the Sunday School Movement.

A. False

B. True

Question #7

Women were considered inappropriate leaders of education during the 1820s and 1830s.

A. False

B. True

Question #8

Your author, Sara Evans, argues women and men attempted to challenge traditional roles and their place in the public and private spheres through their participation in Voluntary Associations.

A. False

B. True

Question #9

The first workers in factories in the United States were young single women between the ages of 15 and 30.

A. False

B. True

Question #10

Young women from New England farms were eventually replaced by machines.

A. True

B. False

Question #11

Lowell Mill became known for cultural programing and the sociability of their boardinghouses. The young women tended to read, and discussions of books were a common practice at the boardinghouses.

A. False

B. True

Question #12

The Lowell Offering was a newspaper written by Francis Cabot Lowell. The magazine gave advice on ideal women's activities and behaviors despite working outside of the home.

A. False

B. True

Question #13

Young female workers established one of the first unions called the Female Labor Reform Association in an attempt to bargain for improved wages

A. False

B. True

Question #14

Despite difficult positions and long hours, many young women saw the opportunity to work at Lowell Mill as a way to have some independence.

A. True

B. False

Question #15

Very few people knew about or read Godey’s Lady’s Book during the 1800s.

A. False

B. True

Question #16

Godey's Lady's Book not only addressed fashion, the magazine included recipes, embroidery patterns, sheet music for the piano, suggestions of hairstyles, lessons in drawing, suggestions for interior decorating, and original American literature, including pieces by Hawthorne, Holmes, and Irving.

A. False

B. True

Question #17

Sarah Hale promoted women’s education, charities, abolition and other social causes.

A. False

B. True

Question #18

Godey’s Lady’s Book had a female editor.

A. False

B. True

Question #19

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Private Sphere

A. The extension of higher levels of education to the general public and including women (post secondary education like the Troy Seminary or Mount Holyoke)

B. The reform movement that pushed for the limiting or elimination of the use of intoxicants (opioids, alcohol, tobacco)

C. Work and life-activities that take place within the home such as domestic work, child-rearing, or education of etiquette and morality

D. Work and life-activities that take place outside of the home such as factory work, engagement in politics, or participation in public gatherings

Question #20

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Public Sphere

A. The extension of higher levels of education to the general public and including women (post secondary education like the Troy Seminary or Mount Holyoke)

B. Work and life-activities that take place outside of the home such as factory work, engagement in politics, or participation in public gatherings

C. Work and life-activities that take place within the home such as domestic work, child-rearing, or education of etiquette and morality

D. The reform movement that pushed for the limiting or elimination of the use of intoxicants (opioids, alcohol, tobacco)

Question #21

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Education Reform

A. The extension of higher levels of education to the general public and including women (post secondary education like the Troy Seminary or Mount Holyoke)

B. The reform movement that challenged traditional understandings of gender roles, pushed for more open sexuality, challenged responsibilities of who raised and worked for childcare roles, and challenged traditional patriarchal structures.

C. The reform movement that pushed for an elimination of prostitution. Participants argued women's nature prevented them from having sexual desire, so prostitution was the result of women being forced into these positions by poverty and nale corruption.

D. The reform movement that pushed for the limiting or elimination of the use of intoxicants (opioids, alcohol, tobacco)

Question #22

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Temperance Movement

A. A religious revival that promoted the morality of women, encouraged women's organizing within the church, and sanctioned emotionality within the church

C. The reform movement that pushed for the limiting or elimination of the use of intoxicants (opioids, alcohol, tobacco)

D. The reform movement that pushed for an elimination of prostitution. Participants argued women's nature prevented them from having sexual desire, so prostitution was the result of women being forced into these positions by poverty and nale corruption.

Question #23

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Moral Reform Movement

A. A religious revival that promoted the morality of women, encouraged women's organizing within the church, and sanctioned emotionality within the church

C. The reform movement that sought to end slavery

Question #24

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Utopian Movement

A. The reform movement that challenged traditional understandings of gender roles, pushed for more open sexuality, challenged responsibilities of who raised and worked for childcare roles, and challenged traditional patriarchal structures.

B. The reform movement that sought to end slavery

C. The reform movement that attempted to create government support and education of prisoners in jail, patients in mental institutions, and establish orphanages. Another major shift advocated by this reform movement was the abolishment of work houses and double sponsors

D. A religious revival that promoted the morality of women, encouraged women's organizing within the church, and sanctioned emotionality within the church

Question #25

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Second Great Awakening

A. The reform movement that sought to end slavery

B. The reform movement that attempted to create government support and education of prisoners in jail, patients in mental institutions, and establish orphanages. Another major shift advocated by this reform movement was the abolishment of work houses and double sponsors

C. A religious revival that promoted the morality of women, encouraged women's organizing within the church, and sanctioned emotionality within the church

D. The extension of higher levels of education to the general public and including women (post secondary education like the Troy Seminary or Mount Holyoke)

Question #26

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Abolition

B. The reform movement that sought to end slavery

Question #27

Match the term with the most appropriate definition. Institutional Reform Movement

A. The reform movement that pushed for the limiting or elimination of the use of intoxicants (opioids, alcohol, tobacco)

B. The reform movement that pushed for an elimination of prostitution. Participants argued women's nature prevented them from having sexual desire, so prostitution was the result of women being forced into these positions by poverty and nale corruption.

D. The extension of higher levels of education to the general public and including women (post secondary education like the Troy Seminary or Mount Holyoke)

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