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43 Cards in this Set
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Midwives
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• highly respected
• lucrative trade • averaged 1500-3000 births |
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Martha Ballard
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• Maine
• died until age 50 • 1660 NYC midwife • paid 100 guilders a year • paid by family |
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Dower Rights - "Widows Third"
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• 1/3 of property lassest upon husband's death
• remained in effect until 1945 |
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Salem Witch Trials
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• 1690s England
• 115 accused & 20 executed |
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Salem Witch Trials (character of the accused vs. accusers)
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Salem Witch Trials (catalyst for end of the "madness")
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Cult of Domesticity
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Republican Motherhood
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"Good Wives"
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Chinese Immigration
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Lowell Girls
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• textile factories
• early • unmarried • Black Listed • single young women 15-30 years old |
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Law of Coverture: "Feme Covert"
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• Loss of legal and political identity
• inheritance is now under the husband • protected by husbands assests > rewarded with protection for good behavior • husband assumed all rents, profits, or property |
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Temperance Movement
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Female Labor Reform Association (FLRA)
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• come out of all the strikes from the Lowell Girls
• advocate fair wages |
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The New York Moral Reform Society
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Miscegenation Laws
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inter-racial relationships are illegal
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Status of the Mother Laws
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"Deputy Husbands"
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Deborah Sampson
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• aka Thomas Thayer & Robert Shurtliff
• 1760s oldest of 6 kids • Massachusetts • Enlists 1778 = Fail • Enlists 1782 = Success • Serves 1 1/2 years, honorably discharged |
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Pocahontas
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• saves John Smith at 12 years old
• 1613 kidnapped and taken to VA, meets John Rolfe (takes her out of slavery) • 1614 "Rebecca" becomes the symbol of assimilation & acculturation • 1615-1616 travels to Europe • Approx. March 21, 1617 died in Gravesend (Today: Kent, England) |
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Divorce Bill of 1667
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• absolutely no divorce
• UNLESS desserted 3 years, adultery, or polygamy • neglect and abuse are not causes of divorce |
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Anne Hutchinson
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Status of Black women (colonial)
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System of Race Privilege
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"Feminization of African Labor"
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Private Sphere vs. Public Sphere
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Gender Notions
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Gender Notions Wome's Sexuality: Consort
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Gender Notions Wome's Sexuality: Mother
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Hannah Emerson Duston
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Elizabeth Emerson
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Molly Pitcher
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Carry Nation
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Barbara Welter
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Abolistionist Movement
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Grimke Sisters: Sarah and Angelina
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Narcissa Whitman
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Conditions of the trail(s) out West
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Characteristics of Hispanic communities in West
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Western homestead
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• settlement out West
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Western occupations: Prostitutes
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Western occupations: missionaries
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Western occupations: merchants
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