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¡Quiz 1 (History 9)A- True B- False
1.Women who bore children outside of marriage could be whipped, branded or fined.
2.Hutchinson was put on trial as a heretic, and ordered to leave ‘as a leper.’
3.The Protestant view of a woman’s soul helped to promote literacy for women.
4. Under colonial law eventually women would gain three important rights that married British women did not possess.
5.First courts recognized a wife’s right to share her husband’s home and bed.
6.Second to be supported by her husband even if he abandoned her.
7.Third, a wife’s right to be protected from violence at her husband’s hand.
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8.As many as 20,000 women marched with the British and American armies in the war for independence.
9.In law in colonial America there was no such institution as slave marriage.
10.Harriet Tubman stole some 3oo slaves from the South after her own escape in 19 trips over 10 years.
¡Quiz 2 (History 9)A- True B- False
1.Resistance is not a defining aspect of female slavery.
2.Sojourner Truth spoke at the women’s convention in Ohio, in 1851.
3.One image of the slave woman is of having inordinate strength, with an ability for tolerating an unusual amount of misery and heavy work.
4. Many women who had been a Mammy were left in old age and abandoned.
5.The Gospel of Domesticity perpetuated the idea that women belong in the home, and under the rule of her husband.
6.Slaves suffered a heavy proportion of deaths due to SIDS because of malnutrition and over work of mothers.
7.Women in Africa dominated agriculture but in the New World ideas about women’s gender appropriate work was different.
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8.Urban slave women had little hope of creating a family that could remain intact.
9.It was illegal for whites to marry blacks, native Americans or mulattos.
10.Jamestown had indentured servants but not slaves working in the community.
¡Quiz 3 (History 9)A- True B- False
1.Women of the middle class were isolated from the world of men and commerce.
2.Cut off from the money economy, a woman could work all day for her family but in the eyes of the world she did not work.
3.Women rejected the moral code of domesticity.
4. To be a lady, one had to employ domestic help in the U.S.
5.The same ideas used to justify the revolution were used in early feminist arguments for equality.
6.Angelina was the first woman in the U.S. to address a legislative body.
7.Puritans did not view marriage as a social contract and did not allow for divorce.
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8.Anne Hutchinson faced a trial before the ministers but not a secular trial.
9.Even wealthy women were accused of witchcraft.
10.Women who wanted to marry well had to have their feet bound.