HIST 37 CH 5 QUIZ
What argument drew many women to the temperance movement in the 1840s and 1850s?
A man who stopped drinking would better support his family.
What was one remarkable aspect of women's involvement in the antebellum reform movement?
As many as 10 percent of women in the Northeast were involved in reform groups.
Prostitution in California in the mid-nineteenth century had a distinct racial hierarchy with which group at the bottom?
Chinese women
What experience was chronicled by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, a Mexicana who married an American army officer?
The process by which the government confiscated land from Californios
What happened to many Native women who left their own people to live with white men in informal sexual and domestic unions at U.S. Army forts or trading centers in the West?
They were abandoned when white women arrived and ended up living on the edges of white culture.
What generalization describes the experience of women in the western United States during the period of overland expansion dominated by Oregon Trail migration?
Women experienced conflict as members of different cultural groups competed for respectability and dominance.
The work of northern women during the Civil War differed from that of southern women in that they
created a national umbrella organization to provide services to the troops.
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 issued a manifesto that in both style and philosophy echoed the Declaration of Independence when it called for
equality of men and women before the law.
In the spring of 1863, the women of Richmond rioted in the streets protesting
food shortages and triple-digit inflation.
Many female abolitionists were pushed toward advocating women's rights by their realization that
free women experienced barriers to personhood like those faced by slaves.
In the 1840s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton lobbied to get the New York legislature to pass a bill that
gave wives control over their inherited wealth.
Congress responded to the petition drive of female abolitionists in the 1830s by
passing the "gag rule," which tabled all antislavery petitions.
During the Civil War, northern women activists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, formed the Women's National Loyal League to
pressure Lincoln to adopt a broader emancipation policy.
The Shakers, founded by Mother Ann Lee, challenged conventional notions of marriage by
prohibiting all sexual relations, even within marriage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) dramatized
the dangers facing runaway slaves under the new Fugitive Slave Law.
Maria Stewart is significant because she was
the first American woman to criticize slavery in a meeting of men and women.
Moral reform activists viewed prostitutes as
victims of men's sexual excesses.
The "water cure," a system of cold baths and loose clothing, was offered as comfort to women who
were worn out from too many pregnancies.
