Wst326 Exam 1

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The Enlightenment

Back 1

-Splits men and women
-Men are rational, Women are emotional and pious
-Men decide women do not need education, aren't rational
-Wollstencraft and Judith Sergeant Murray and Benjamin Rush

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Coverture/feme covert

Back 2

-Man takes over women's rights, property, debts, crimes, wages

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Deputy Husband

Back 3

-Wife assumes husbands role when husband is away

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Republican Motherhood

Back 4

-Women raise sons to be good citizens, need education, women to educate children
-Womens duty, responsibilities to pass it on and influence husbands

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Finney measures

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-Charles Grandeson Finney used new measures to convert others:
1)Mixed-sex public praying
2)Service over days
3)Colloquial languages
4)Anxious bench adds converts immediately after conversion

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Bastardy

Back 6

-Having children out of wedlock, Chesapeake
-If women got pregnant during indentured servitude, master could sue for longer time from women or child from servitude
-Sex ratio issues, not uncommon to marry after pregnancy known

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Second Great Awakening

Back 7

-After industrialization, middle class think country headed in wrong direction, need to pursue religion not money
-Renewed interest in religion
-Finney Measures
-Shakers, Mormons, & Oneida

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Feme Sole

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-Single women
-Able to earn wages
-Entitled to property
-Can sign contracts
-Can sue

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Widow's third

Back 9

-When husband dies, widow gets 1/3 of property until her death, remarriage, or male heir come of age, often in Chesapeake

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Lowell

Back 10

-Factory town where single, young farm women would go to work in New England(Mass.)
-Have boarding house, Textile, completely feminine except owners.
-Make money to family or until marriage.
-Rise out of middle class.
-1834 first strike at first successful, then less, 1836 larger scale for longer time, Factory girls association

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The Enlightenment

Back 11

-Splits men and women
-Men are rational, Women are emotional and pious
-Men decide women do not need education, aren't rational
-Wollstencraft and Judith Sergeant Murray and Benjamin Rush

Front 12

Coverture/feme covert

Back 12

-Man takes over women's rights, property, debts, crimes, wages

Front 13

Deputy Husband

Back 13

-Wife assumes husbands role when husband is away

Front 14

Republican Motherhood

Back 14

-Women raise sons to be good citizens, need education, women to educate children
-Womens duty, responsibilities to pass it on and influence husbands

Front 15

Finney measures

Back 15

-Charles Grandeson Finney used new measures to convert others:
1)Mixed-sex public praying
2)Service over days
3)Colloquial languages
4)Anxious bench adds converts immediately after conversion

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Bastardy

Back 16

-Having children out of wedlock, Chesapeake
-If women got pregnant during indentured servitude, master could sue for longer time from women or child from servitude
-Sex ratio issues, not uncommon to marry after pregnancy known

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Second Great Awakening

Back 17

-After industrialization, middle class think country headed in wrong direction, need to pursue religion not money
-Renewed interest in religion
-Finney Measures
-Shakers, Mormons, & Oneida

Front 18

Feme Sole

Back 18

-Single women
-Able to earn wages
-Entitled to property
-Can sign contracts
-Can sue

Front 19

Widow's third

Back 19

-When husband dies, widow gets 1/3 of property until her death, remarriage, or male heir come of age, often in Chesapeake

Front 20

Lowell

Back 20

-Factory town where single, young farm women would go to work in New England(Mass.)
-Have boarding house, Textile, completely feminine except owners.
-Make money to family or until marriage.
-Rise out of middle class.
-1834 first strike at first successful, then less, 1836 larger scale for longer time, Factory girls association

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Anne Bradstreet

Back 21

-Puritan poet, well-educated, surprising
-Values expected of women: weak, patient, thankful

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Mary Rowlandson

Back 22

-Captured by Indians during King Phillips War(1675)
-Captured w/children and survives because she continues to do domestic duties
-Gets ransomed back
-Writes narrative signs:
1)received bible
2)saw son
3)heard about daughter

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Mary Jemison

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-Captured by Native Americans, later chose to stay
-Prefers Seneca to Whites

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Mercy Otis Warren

Back 24

-Propagandistic during Revolutionary War
-Got published under pen name with help of John Adams

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Abigail Adams

Back 25

-"Remember the ladies" in private letter to John RE: constitution/new govt, Rebellion from ladies otherwise

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Benjamin Rush

Back 26

-Advocated for educating women the same way as men, to get good citizens
-Republican Motherhood

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Judith Sargent Murray

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-Printed "Equality of the Sexes" (1790) under pen name
-Educate women!, Housework is boring- talk/women about frivolous things
-Equality of souls

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Back 28

-British
-Argues for education of women

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Charles Grandison Finney

Back 29

-NY extreme preacher during Second Great Awakening
-Finney Measures
-Presbyterian (unusual)

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Joseph Smith

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-Founder of Mormonism
-Vision as teen, all other religions are false
-Golden tablets with book of Mormon
-Really large, really fast.
-Take over land, polygamy/multiple marriages.
-Arrested, murdered, church splits - polygamy to Utah w Brigham Young

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John Humphrey Noyes

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-Founder of Oneida Community (lasts 30 years)
-Utopian society. Shaker idea, then complex marriage

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Anne Lee

Back 32

-Founder of shakers
-Dance as form of worship
-Celibate
-Men & women separate
-No reproduction, rely on converts

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Salem Witchcraft Trials

Back 33

-1692, 20 people executed (14 women, 6 men)
-Argument #1 - Salem Town vs Village: Accusers from village accusing town members, trying to gain power based on tensions shown from map
-Argument #2: People who are convicted tend to be widowed women who could inherit property

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Indentured Servitude

Back 34

-People who were willing to take their chances in the new world to get away from home to become young servants.
-Serve for 7 years before they are free
-Most were young, working class women
-Most died before their 7 years arrived
-Most women married up with their owner after the 7 years since they had their own tobacco farm and money

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the Puritans

Back 35

-wanted to simplify/purify the Church of Endland (Protestant church)
-2 groups:
--1 wanted to reform church/simplify it
--the other wanted to separate from the church (Separatists)

-Landed at Plymouth in 1620
-Plymouth was no larger than 700 people
-Came as families
-Tended to be more "Middle class (more property, money, education than in chesapeake)
-Lived healthier, longer lives and had healthier babies than in Chesapeake
-Understood women as "temptresses" and "vain: likely to stray if men tempted them to be lead astray"
-Men were supposed to be stronger when it came to cheating on their spouses

Divorce
-Marriage was seen as something "never to be broken", as a "contract" rather than a religious ceremony

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3 Social norms of how Marriage was viewed by Married couples in Colonial Life

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1) The husband is supreme in all external family matters (Economics, politics, public matters, etc.)

2) The husbands decisions will incorporate the interests and opinions of his wife (He is supposed to do whats best for his wife)

3) If the Husband is unable to fulfill his duties the wife can stand in his place as the Deputy Husband

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Matri-lineal kinship system

Back 37

-In Native American society, the family is traced on the womans side (Seneca and Iroquois) which means you are associated with the clan of your mother

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Matri-local Residence

Back 38

-In Native American society, when a couple marries, HE moves into the wifes clan.
-If the couple decides to split, the man is sent away from the clan