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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the literacy of eighteenth-century Americans? |
| | A) | In 1789, female literacy exceeded male literacy in most colonies. |
| | B) | In Massachusetts in 1789, 9 out of 10 men were literate but under half the women. |
| | C) | In Massachusetts in 1789, 9 out of 10 men and women could read and write. |
| | D) | In Massachusetts in 1789, 9 out of 10 women could read, but under half the men. |
| | E) | In all colonies except Massachusetts, male literacy exceeded female literacy. |
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All of the following statements accurately describe the lives of widows in the eighteenth-century colonies EXCEPT: |
| | A) | As the decades passed, widows were less and less likely to remarry. |
| | B) | Widows congregated in towns and cities. |
| | C) | Widows sometimes managed trades and businesses established by their late husbands. |
| | D) | Widows exceeded 25% of the female population in most colonies. |
| | E) | Some widows ran inns, boardinghouses, and taverns to support themselves. |
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The Great Awakening of the 1740s did all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | expand female participation in religious life. |
| | B) | induce spates of revivals and multiplication of sects. |
| | C) | encourage some women to demand equal political rights. |
| | D) | encourage some women to assume roles religious leadership. |
| | E) | affect women's lives in the New England colonies. |
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes women's legal rights in the eighteenth-century colonies? |
| | A) | A wife could bequest her personal property without her husband's consent. |
| | B) | Married women lacked control of real estate but retained control of their children. |
| | C) | In most colonies a husband could sell property a wife brought to the marriage. |
| | D) | Widows, like wives, could not sue or be sued. |
| | E) | Widows, unlike wives, could own and sell property. |
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"Feme Sole Trader" laws did all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | grant married women some legal rights available to single women. |
| | B) | make it possible for deserted women to support themselves. |
| | C) | make husbands responsible for their wives' debts. |
| | D) | enable wives of bankrupt men to satisfy their husbands' creditors. |
| | E) | make it possible for married women to engage in trade. |
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A dower right can be most accurately described as |
| | A) | a widow's entitlement to a life interest in one-third of her late husband's property. |
| | B) | a wife's right to be supported by her husband. |
| | C) | a widower's right to his late wife's property. |
| | D) | a wife's entitlement to one-third of her husband's income. |
| | E) | a woman's obligation to provide property to her husband at marriage. |
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Approximately what proportion of wealth in the American colonies was under women's control? |
| | A) | 90% |
| | B) | 75% |
| | C) | 50% |
| | D) | 25% |
| | E) | 10% |
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In Spanish settlements in North America, the term mestizo most accurately described |
| | A) | persons of mixed racial lineage. |
| | B) | Spanish people who lived in New Spain or Spanish territories. |
| | C) | Indian residents of New Spain or Spanish territories. |
| | D) | English people who lived in New Spain or its northern settlements. |
| | E) | all descendants of Spanish aristocrats. |
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Life in Spanish frontier communities in the eighteenth century was distinguished by all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | widows who served as heads of families. |
| | B) | intermarriage of Spanish people and Indians. |
| | C) | lack of class stratification. |
| | D) | high death rates and many orphans. |
| | E) | sharply delineated gender roles. |
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes how women's roles among the Cherokees changed over the course of the eighteenth century? |
| | A) | Women assumed more dominant roles as household heads. |
| | B) | Disruptions of war increased women's political roles. |
| | C) | The growing importance of trade with Europeans diminished women's roles. |
| | D) | As agriculture became more important, women's prestige increased. |
| | E) | Intermarriage of Cherokee women and European traders declined. |
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Enslaved women in the eighteenth-century colonies experienced all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | increasing parity of sex ratios. |
| | B) | rising rates of childbearing. |
| | C) | a higher probability than enslaved men of doing field work. |
| | D) | opportunity to become artisans in many trades and overseers of other slaves. |
| | E) | some opportunity to escape slavery during the Revolution. |
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The impact of the American Revolution on American women included all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | The Revolution provided stimulus to home manufacture. |
| | B) | Many women joined women's patriotic associations. |
| | C) | Women failed to gain the right of suffrage in most colonies. |
| | D) | Women gained independence from coverture in most colonies. |
| | E) | Women sometimes became camp followers of the Revolutionary army. |
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After the Revolution, women gained the following political rights: |
| | A) | All women could vote in New Jersey. |
| | B) | Unmarried women property owners could vote in New Jersey. |
| | C) | Unmarried women property owners could vote in all states except New Jersey. |
| | D) | Unmarried women property owners could vote in all states. |
| | E) | Women were entitled to vote only on the ratification of the Constitution. |
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After the Revolution, the following change characterized family life: |
| | A) | Southern states paved the way for changes in divorce law. |
| | B) | Parents gained control over whom their children married. |
| | C) | Fewer women remained single for life. |
| | D) | Opportunity for divorce diminished in all states. |
| | E) | Twelve states and one territory recognized the legal rights of divorce. |
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The "Republican Mother" of the post-Revolutionary era, a term used by historians, refers primarily to |
| | A) | a woman who had attended a female academy. |
| | B) | a woman who was married to a prominent political leader. |
| | C) | a woman who supported Jefferson in the presidential election of 1800 |
| | D) | a woman who instilled patriotic ideals in her children. |
| | E) | a woman whose husband had fought in the Revolutionary War. |
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