What was the main reason, according to the chapter, that frontier women in early America seemed to achieve a status closer to equality with men?
Explanation
This question assesses the reader's understanding of the argument that the practical necessities of frontier life created a unique, albeit temporary, condition of near-equality for women.
Other questions
In Chapter 6, what does Howard Zinn suggest was a primary consequence for women in societies based on private property and competition?
According 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?
In what year did ninety women arrive in Jamestown to be sold as wives, the same year the first black slaves arrived in Virginia?
What was the legal doctrine, summarized in a 1632 English document, that defined a married woman's status as 'veiled' or 'overshadowed' by her husband?
Who 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?
What was the approximate literacy rate for women in 1750, as compared to the 90 percent literacy rate for white men?
The 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?
What was the first known strike of women factory workers in the United States, which took place in Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
What percentage of the operatives in the new textile factories were women, most of them between the ages of fifteen and thirty?
In her famous letter of March 1776, what did Abigail Adams urge her husband John to do in the new code of laws?
Which institution did Emma Willard found in 1821, marking it as the first recognized institution for the education of girls?
Who 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?
The 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?
How many people signed the Declaration of Principles at the conclusion of the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848?
Who 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?'
What was the main argument of the popular 19th-century book 'Advice to a Daughter' regarding the relationship between sexes?
What happened to the eighteen married women who came to America on the Mayflower, as an example of the hardships faced by early female settlers?
In the 1777 'coffee party' in Boston, what did a group of over one hundred women do?
According to Nancy Cott's book 'The Bonds of Womanhood', what was a dual effect of the 19th-century ideology of a 'women's sphere'?
The literacy rate among women doubled between which two years, indicating a significant change despite their subordinate status?
Which 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?
In her narrative, how did the escaped slave Linda Brent describe the beginning of her fifteenth year?
What was the main idea of Mary Wollstonecraft's 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women' as described in the chapter?
What 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?
In the 1836 Lowell strike, how many women went on strike against a raise in boardinghouse charges?
What was the one state that granted women the right to vote in its new constitution after the Revolution, only to rescind it in 1807?
The pastoral letter from the General Association of Ministers of Massachusetts in the 1830s commanded that women be forbidden from what activity?
What was Angelina Grimké's response to fellow abolitionists who argued that advocating for sexual equality would hurt the antislavery campaign?
What did the utopian socialist Frances Wright believe was necessary for human improvement to advance beyond a feeble state?
In the invented speech of 'Miss Polly Baker' by Benjamin Franklin, how many times had she been prosecuted for having a bastard child?
What was the name of the first institution for the education of girls, founded by Emma Willard in 1821?
What year did Elizabeth Blackwell get her medical degree, becoming a pioneer for women in the medical profession?
What was a significant aspect of Lucy Stone's marriage to Henry Blackwell, as mentioned in the chapter?
Amelia Bloomer, a postmistress in New York State, became famous for advocating what change for women in 1851?
What was the central argument of Margaret Fuller's influential book, 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century'?
Who was the female midwife from Maine who, in twenty-five years starting around 1795, delivered more than a thousand babies?
According to the chapter, how did women's daily average earnings in 1836 compare to men's?
What 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'?
Which of the following was NOT a grievance listed in the Declaration of Principles at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
According to the chapter, how were the lives of female indentured servants different from slaves in early colonial America?
What was the main point of the letter written by indentured servant Elizabeth Sprigs to her father in 1756?
In the view of Reverend John Cotton of Boston, what was the 'false principle' regarding the relationship between husband and wife?
What was the subject of Dorothea Dix's 1843 address to the Massachusetts legislature?
What was the significance of the first strike of women alone, which occurred in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1828?
What was the main topic of the 'Factory Tracts' published by the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association?
How did Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony describe Anne Hutchinson?
The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Principles was modeled on what famous American document?
How many children did Sojourner Truth state she had borne in her famous 1851 speech?
In 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?