Deck 3: Mothers and daughters of the Revolution

Question 1

In New Jersey,the only state that allowed women to vote after the American Revolution,pressure mounted to exclude women from voting on the grounds that they were

A) not voting in large enough numbers.
B) not educated enough to vote responsibly.
C) easily manipulated by men.
D) heavily involved in fraudulent voting practices.

Answer 1

easily manipulated by men.

Question 2

What two charismatic women led radical religious groups during the Great Awakening?

A) Jemima Wilkinson and Mother Ann Lee
B) Abigail Adams and Anne Hutchinson
C) Mercy Otis Warren and Judith Sargent Murray
D) Lucy Knox and Elizabeth Fields

Answer 2

Jemima Wilkinson and Mother Ann Lee

Question 3

Some Iroquois women,such as Molly Brant,actively participated in the Revolutionary War by

A) encouraging their tribes to support the patriot forces.
B) demanding that their tribes remain neutral.
C) mediating between the British and patriot forces.
D) serving as nurses for the patriot army.

Answer 3

mediating between the British and patriot forces.

Question 4

Most women camp followers were

A) single women who sought the excitement of the battlefield.
B) often poor men's wives who could not function on their own financially.
C) professional nurses who were paid well by the American army for their services.
D) prostitutes who were paid by the American army to follow the troops.

Question 5

How did the Revolutionary War change women's status in most Native American tribes?

A) As men assumed a greater role as diplomats and mediators for their nations, women may have lost some influence within their communities.
B) Because of men's prolonged absence from the community, women assumed greater influence over tribal economic and political policies.
C) Pressure from white missionaries led the U.S. government to allow Native Americans to continue their cultural practices, ensuring that women's influence remained in place.
D) New farming practices introduced by the U.S. government helped increase agricultural yields and increased the importance of women in the tribes.

Question 6

During the Revolutionary War,why did slaves not always enjoy positive results after they escaped from a southern owner?

A) The British found the large numbers of slave women and children burdensome and often returned them to their former owners.
B) When the British army retreated, they always left the former slaves behind to slow down the advancing American troops.
C) The British army transported most escaped slaves to the Caribbean islands, where they were sold back into slavery.
D) Living conditions in the British camps were harsh, and many former slaves succumbed to smallpox and other diseases.

Question 7

After the American Revolution,many free black women in the North helped their communities by participating in

A) churches, which represented the most important institutions for racial integration.
B) black institutions, illustrating that segregation was common in the North.
C) election campaigns that would put black voters firmly into northern politics.
D) the formation of early labor unions, which helped raise their wages and economic mobility.

Question 8

What was one way that life changed for female slaves in the Chesapeake after the war?

A) Textile production replaced tobacco farming, and most female slaves were removed from the fields and put to work at cotton looms.
B) Male slaves were given more skilled jobs as artisans while women inherited the more labor-intensive and disagreeable work associated with farming.
C) Cities grew in the Chesapeake, and the majority of female slaves were moved from the fields to work in new iron and textile factories.
D) With a rise in demand for more slaves, many Chesapeake planters removed their female slaves of childbearing age from field work in hopes of increasing their fertility.

Question 9

How were women who stayed home and did not follow the troops affected by the Revolutionary War?

A) Those who remained at home found little to distress them because both armies promised to leave civilians unmolested.
B) Women often welcomed the presence of troops near their homes because of the profits that could be made selling supplies to the armies.
C) They were often unable to run the farm or family business without their husbands and ended up homeless and starving, along with their children.
D) Women often found their homes commandeered by occupying armies and bore the brunt of the soldiers' demands for food and firewood.

Question 10

How were slave women affected by the war?

A) Many male slaves left southern plantations to join the Continental Army, leaving female slaves to do most of the work.
B) More female slaves and their children were able to escape slavery because of the confusion of war and British policies.
C) Although the British welcomed male slaves who would fight, they returned runaway female slaves to their masters.
D) Because of the deprivations of war, female slaves and their mistresses bonded more closely, and many southern mistresses freed their slaves at the war's end.

Question 11

How did colonial men's attitudes toward the boycotting of British cloth and the production of colonial homespun change as the protests against new taxes continued?

A) Colonial men quickly realized their dependence on women's efforts to create homespun and went from ignoring their participation to praising it.
B) Colonial men initially praised women for their creation of homespun but later worried that women were too involved in politics and discouraged the activity.
C) Colonial men encouraged women to boycott British cloth but worried that the production of homespun cloth was hurting the New England textile factories' profits.
D) Colonial men felt the boycott was ineffective and disliked the feel of homespun, so they began a campaign to stop women from producing it.

Question 12

Why were slaves sometimes able to negotiate new relationships with their masters during the Revolutionary War?

A) Food shortages in the North placed a heavier emphasis on southern food production, and southern planters needed the cooperation of their slaves to increase their output.
B) The need for more soldiers led many southern slaveowners to free their slaves and their families if the slaves agreed to enlist in the Continental Army.
C) Wartime labor shortages and the British promise of freedom to slaves who agreed to fight for them gave slaves more power to ask for privileges.
D) The emancipation of slaves in the northern states during the war put added pressure on southern slaveowners to convince their slaves not to run away.

Question 13

How did southern women's protests against British imported cloth differ from northern women's protests?

A) The plantation mistresses got together in large groups to produce their homespun.
B) Southern women tended to produce homespun on their own rather than in groups.
C) Southern women refused to produce homespun because it violated their aristocratic lifestyle.
D) Wealthy southern women hired poor white women to produce homespun.

Question 14

Although proponents for women's education challenged the idea that education would make women less feminine,they rarely recommended that

A) women should attend public schools.
B) women be educated to move beyond the domestic sphere.
C) women's curriculum should be expanded beyond reading and writing.
D) middle- or lower-class women be educated beyond domestic skills.

Question 15

Men responded to women's efforts to organize and raise funds for the revolutionary cause by

A) pressuring women to express their patriotism through conventionally domestic activities.
B) insisting that participation by genteel women in fund-raising was unacceptable.
C) demanding that the money raised by women be given directly to the soldiers.
D) encouraging women to take on other male roles, such as serving in the new government.

Question 16

Why might women's roles in Native American life have diminished as tribes became enmeshed in European and American conflicts?

A) White military men did not like to deal with women.
B) Native women began to adopt English ideas about women's roles.
C) Native women supported staying out of the conflict entirely.
D) The rationale for going to war shifted from traditional issues to political issues.

Question 17

How did patriot legislatures treat the wives of loyalists who had been exiled or had gone to fight with the British?

A) Most states presumed that women's political views were independent of their husbands' and allowed loyalists' wives to remain in their homes.
B) Most states considered loyalists' wives to be a dangerous source of information and imprisoned them until the end of the war.
C) Most states, presuming that women's allegiance followed their husbands', often plundered their land and personal goods.
D) Most states considered women to be too naïve to understand political issues and thus did not hold them responsible for their husbands' actions.

Question 18

What have scholars concluded about slave women's religious experiences?

A) Slave women resisted conversion to Christianity because they had been spiritual leaders in African traditions.
B) Slave women may have been significant in promoting conversion to evangelical Christianity because of their intimate roles in southern households.
C) White slaveowners suppressed signs of religious fervor in slave women because they feared that the values of Christianity would lead to slave unrest.
D) Slave women followed the religious preferences of their husbands.

Question 19

A contributing cause of conflict between the colonies and Britain was the

A) passage by Parliament of the Navigation Acts that limited colonial trade with France.
B) loss of western territory to the French after the French and Indian War.
C) Proclamation of 1763, which closed land west of the Appalachians to settlement.
D) treaties the colonists signed with Native Americans, which angered the British.

Question 20

After the Revolution,what changes took place concerning divorce in the United States?

A) Divorce became illegal in all states but South Carolina.
B) More women than men sued for divorce, reversing earlier trends.
C) In many states, divorce petitions required action by the state assembly.
D) Every state wrote laws making it easier for men to seek a divorce than for women.

Question 21

The premise of the ideology that historians call Republican Motherhood was that women

A) should have a greater voice in public affairs in order to protect their children.
B) should be educated for the sole purpose of learning domestic skills.
C) have vital roles in educating their children for their duties as citizens.
D) are the most valued members of the republic.

Question 22

When Abigail Adams urged her husband John to "remember the ladies," she meant for him to

A) often write home from Philadelphia and not neglect his domestic relationships.
B) offer pensions to the widows of slain Revolutionary War soldiers.
C) create a constitutional amendment guaranteeing equality to women.
D) honor the ideology of liberty by giving women more legal rights.

Question 23

What is a reason that women were denied the vote in most states after the American Revolution?

A) Most women could not read or write.
B) Women were assumed to be dependent.
C) Women were too weak-minded to understand politics.
D) Most women were not members of a political party.

Question 24

What were many impoverished war widows forced to do to survive by 1800?

A) Take welfare provided by state and local governments
B) Turn to prostitution to earn a living
C) Create and sell piecework from their homes
D) Work as factory laborers

Question 25

In addition to boycotts,what other forms of political action did women take to resist British power?

A) Dozens of women in many states ran as candidates for public office.
B) Women lobbied their legislatures to make peace and reach a compromise with Parliament.
C) Women helped raise funds to build American textile mills to replace the need for British cloth.
D) Women wrote newspaper articles and poems encouraging others to resist unfair British measures.

Question 26

How did the Great Awakening of the 1740s and the Second Great Awakening of the 1790s affect women's lives?

A) White women were given more latitude in religious expression and increased their participation in religious groups.
B) Women's dominant roles in organized religion were suppressed, as men returned to churches in large numbers.
C) Women were briefly given the opportunity to preach and to exercise leadership in the churches.
D) The new religious ideas that spread as a result of these movements reinforced women's submission to men.

Question 27

What was the fate of some African Americans who turned to the British to secure their freedom during the Revolutionary War?

A) They were sent to England, where they started that island's small Anglo-African population.
B) They returned to slavery when the British army sold them back to their American owners.
C) They were transported to an uncertain fate in the West Indies, Nova Scotia, or Sierra Leone.
D) They were freed and settled in northern cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York.

Question 28

After the war,why did slavery became more entrenched in the Lower South?

A) The tobacco market declined, and the economy became more diversified.
B) The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 allowed for the growth of more cotton.
C) Sales of slaves from the North to the South increased.
D) The importation of slaves from Africa decreased.

Question 29

What was one effect of the Revolutionary War on the slave population?

A) It created opportunities for many slaves, especially women and children, to escape slavery.
B) It provoked slaveowners to be vigilant, making it more difficult for slaves to escape.
C) Slaves who fought for the colonial side won freedom for themselves and their families.
D) It forced a large number of slaveowners to emancipate their slaves in light of the ideology of liberty.

Question 30

How did the position of Native American women evolve in the postrevolutionary period?

A) Native Americans rejected whites' missionary ideas about the subservience of women.
B) A revival of traditional tribal ways led to the reestablishment of women's spiritual roles.
C) Heavy population losses led to pressure on Native women to bear more children.
D) Native men were pressured to take up farming while Native women worked on spinning, weaving, and other domestic concerns.

Question 31

How did the Revolutionary War affect the role of women?

A) Women questioned their own competence and relied more on their husband's advice.
B) White women's status in the home and politics became a subject of debate after the war.
C) Women demanded equal political rights as their husbands.
D) The economy suffered due to women's poor handling of their husbands' businesses.

Question 32

During the American Revolution,how were women camp followers generally treated?

A) They were generously compensated for their valuable service as laundresses, cooks, and nurses.
B) They were considered useful to the army as long as they stayed in their traditional roles.
C) As upper-class, genteel women, they were treated with respect and deference.
D) Since most were prostitutes, they were kept far from the troops.

Question 33

Why were patriot committees of safety particularly concerned about loyalist women?

A) Loyalist women wore British uniforms and fought against the patriots.
B) Sometimes loyalist women served as couriers and spies for the British.
C) Loyalist women sheltered runaway slaves on their way to join the British.
D) Many loyalist women had left husbands who were patriots.

Question 34

Many Native Americans sided with the British during the Revolutionary War because they

A) considered the colonial policy of assimilation disastrous.
B) appreciated the British policy that banned colonists from Indian lands.
C) admired the discipline and strength of the British army.
D) felt obligated to honor alliances entered into during the French and Indian War.

Question 35

Spinning homespun and brewing herbal teas and coffee were ways in which colonial women contributed to

A) colonial boycotts of British goods.
B) the loyalist cause during the war.
C) the pacifist effort to avert war.
D) boosting the colonial economy.

Question 36

Why did the Revolutionary War cause particular problems for Quaker women?

A) Most of the battles took place in Pennsylvania, where Quakers lived.
B) Quaker women supported the British government even while their husbands were patriots.
C) When the British invaded Pennsylvania, they began imprisoning American Quakers.
D) Quaker women suffered from their neutral stance, which arose from their pacifism.

Question 37

Why were African Americans attracted to evangelical Protestantism?

A) Most slaveowners were Catholic, so slaves were naturally more attracted to Protestantism.
B) The evangelical emphasis on spontaneous conversion was similar to West African religious beliefs.
C) The slaves liked the formal ritual and services of the evangelical Protestant churches.
D) Most southern planters opposed evangelical Protestantism, so slaves joined as a form of protest.

Question 38

How did the Enlightenment affect the colonies before the American Revolution?

A) The Enlightenment stressed the role of Protestantism in government affairs.
B) Enlightenment writers suggested that gender equality must accompany any discussion of the "rights of man."
C) Enlightenment thinker John Locke promoted the idea that monarchs ruled by divine right.
D) The Enlightenment inspired colonists to question British authority and claim individual rights.

Question 39

As northern states gradually abolished slavery,most of the newly freed women

A) stayed at home and cared for their families.
B) became indentured to their former masters.
C) found work as agricultural laborers.
D) found jobs doing domestic work or child care.

Question 40

The suit filed by Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)to obtain her freedom led to the Massachusetts state court's abolition of slavery in 1783 on the grounds that

A) slavery was an unnatural state for women.
B) a rational creature could not be held in perpetual servitude.
C) masters would be morally corrupted if they continued to own other persons.
D) revolutionary soldiers had fought for the end of slavery.