The Intimately Oppressed
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In Chapter 6, what does Howard Zinn suggest was a primary consequence for women in societies based on private property and competition?
View answer and explanationAccording to the text, how did the status of women in the Zuñi tribes of the Southwest differ from that in the white societies that overran them?
View answer and explanationIn what year did ninety women arrive in Jamestown to be sold as wives, the same year the first black slaves arrived in Virginia?
View answer and explanationWhat was the legal doctrine, summarized in a 1632 English document, that defined a married woman's status as 'veiled' or 'overshadowed' by her husband?
View answer and explanationWho was the religious woman and mother of thirteen who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 for defying church fathers and holding her own theological meetings?
View answer and explanationWhat was the approximate literacy rate for women in 1750, as compared to the 90 percent literacy rate for white men?
View answer and explanationThe ideological set of ideas that developed after 1820, expecting women to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic, is referred to by Barbara Welter as what?
View answer and explanationWhat was the first known strike of women factory workers in the United States, which took place in Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
View answer and explanationWhat percentage of the operatives in the new textile factories were women, most of them between the ages of fifteen and thirty?
View answer and explanationIn her famous letter of March 1776, what did Abigail Adams urge her husband John to do in the new code of laws?
View answer and explanationWhich institution did Emma Willard found in 1821, marking it as the first recognized institution for the education of girls?
View answer and explanationWho was the feminist pioneer who, after being twice refused admission to Harvard Medical School, established her own medical practice and organized a Ladies Physiological Society in 1843?
View answer and explanationThe first Women's Rights Convention in history was held in Seneca Falls, New York, following the exclusion of women from what 1840 event in London?
View answer and explanationHow many people signed the Declaration of Principles at the conclusion of the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848?
View answer and explanationWho was the ex-slave that delivered a powerful speech at a women's convention in 1851, famously repeating the phrase 'And a'nt I a woman?'
View answer and explanationWhat was the main argument of the popular 19th-century book 'Advice to a Daughter' regarding the relationship between sexes?
View answer and explanationWhat happened to the eighteen married women who came to America on the Mayflower, as an example of the hardships faced by early female settlers?
View answer and explanationIn the 1777 'coffee party' in Boston, what did a group of over one hundred women do?
View answer and explanationAccording to Nancy Cott's book 'The Bonds of Womanhood', what was a dual effect of the 19th-century ideology of a 'women's sphere'?
View answer and explanationThe literacy rate among women doubled between which two years, indicating a significant change despite their subordinate status?
View answer and explanationWhich sisters, prominent in the abolitionist movement, were also powerful early voices for women's rights, with one being the first woman to address a committee of the Massachusetts state legislature?
View answer and explanationIn her narrative, how did the escaped slave Linda Brent describe the beginning of her fifteenth year?
View answer and explanationWhat was the main idea of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' as described in the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat was the name of the organization formed in Lowell, Massachusetts, that put out a series of 'Factory Tracts' describing the harsh conditions of mill life?
View answer and explanationIn the 1836 Lowell strike, how many women went on strike against a raise in boardinghouse charges?
View answer and explanationWhat was the one state that granted women the right to vote in its new constitution after the Revolution, only to rescind it in 1807?
View answer and explanationThe pastoral letter from the General Association of Ministers of Massachusetts in the 1830s commanded that women be forbidden from what activity?
View answer and explanationWhat was Angelina Grimké's response to fellow abolitionists who argued that advocating for sexual equality would hurt the antislavery campaign?
View answer and explanationWhat did the utopian socialist Frances Wright believe was necessary for human improvement to advance beyond a feeble state?
View answer and explanationIn the invented speech of 'Miss Polly Baker' by Benjamin Franklin, how many times had she been prosecuted for having a bastard child?
View answer and explanationWhat was the name of the first institution for the education of girls, founded by Emma Willard in 1821?
View answer and explanationWhat year did Elizabeth Blackwell get her medical degree, becoming a pioneer for women in the medical profession?
View answer and explanationWhat was a significant aspect of Lucy Stone's marriage to Henry Blackwell, as mentioned in the chapter?
View answer and explanationAmelia Bloomer, a postmistress in New York State, became famous for advocating what change for women in 1851?
View answer and explanationWhat was the central argument of Margaret Fuller's influential book, 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century'?
View answer and explanationWho was the female midwife from Maine who, in twenty-five years starting around 1795, delivered more than a thousand babies?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, how did women's daily average earnings in 1836 compare to men's?
View answer and explanationWhat action did the women strikers at the Lowell mills take in 1834 after one of their own was fired, leading to a speech on the 'rights of women'?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following was NOT a grievance listed in the Declaration of Principles at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, how were the lives of female indentured servants different from slaves in early colonial America?
View answer and explanationWhat was the main point of the letter written by indentured servant Elizabeth Sprigs to her father in 1756?
View answer and explanationIn the view of Reverend John Cotton of Boston, what was the 'false principle' regarding the relationship between husband and wife?
View answer and explanationWhat was the subject of Dorothea Dix's 1843 address to the Massachusetts legislature?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of the first strike of women alone, which occurred in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1828?
View answer and explanationWhat was the main topic of the 'Factory Tracts' published by the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association?
View answer and explanationHow did Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony describe Anne Hutchinson?
View answer and explanationThe Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Principles was modeled on what famous American document?
View answer and explanationWhat was the main reason, according to the chapter, that frontier women in early America seemed to achieve a status closer to equality with men?
View answer and explanationHow many children did Sojourner Truth state she had borne in her famous 1851 speech?
View answer and explanationIn Sarah Grimké's 'Letters on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes', what did she say was the 'one thing needful' that women of the fashionable world were taught to regard marriage as?
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