Study Guide Part I

1. What is structural discrimination? How does it work?
2. What was the Enlightenment? What thinkers influenced early feminism in America? What were the arguments in support of equality?
3. Discuss the lives and cultures of women in: Native American tribes, Chinese immigrants, European immigrants, African slaves.
4. What is Feminism? Why is it important?
5. What is Abolition and why did women support it? How did it relate to Sufferage?
6. Discuss the rights (or lack of) for women in colonial America?
7. What about the New World caused women in the colonies to have more legal rights than British women?
8. How did life in the colonies force a cultural change for colonists from their old traditions?
9. Discuss the Slave Trade and Middle Passage.
10. What was the First Feminist Revolt? Why is it important?
11. What was the cult of Domesticity?
12. What was a Republican Mother? Discuss her ideals and contributions.
13. Who were the Founding Mothers and what did they do?
14. What is patriarchal society like? What does patriarch mean?
15. Identify and discuss: John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Condorcet, Ottis, de Gourges, and Abigail Adams.
16. Identify: Puritans, Quakers, Pilgrims
17. Identify all of the women on the Vocabulary List