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Chesapeake women who achieved wealth did so mostly

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through marriage, and often remarriage, to wealthy men

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Englishwomen who migrated to the Chesapeake in the seventeeth century as indentured servants found that they

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often labored in the tobacco fields because necessity overrode gender distinctions

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Most of the women accused of witchcraft during the New England witch hunts were

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either old, poor, and powerless, or in a position of some authority and prestige

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Why did women in the Chesapeake colonies tend to die at an earlier age than men throughout the seventeenth century?

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The hazards of childbirth

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What was a result of high mortality rates in the Chesapeake region during the seventeenth century?

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A system of complicated blended families because widows remarried quickly

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In challenging religious doctrine and the clergy who interpreted it in Massachusetts, Anne Hutchinson also contested the

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subordinate status of women in religious discussions

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How did New England women in the seventeenth century respond to the fact that few of them were proficient in all household skills?

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They bartered among themselves for necessities and services, especially in remote areas

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What was remarkable about the demographics of colonial New England in the seventeenth century?

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New England had lower ages at first marriage and higher fertility than in England or the Southern colonies

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Why did Quaker women in Pennsylvania enjoy relatively equal status with Quaker men?

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Quakers believed “the Inner light of christ” was available equally to all

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The Chesapeake colonies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, what happened to women who became pregnant during their period of indentured servitude?

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They were fined and publicly whipped

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What roles did women have among Pennsylvania’s Quakers?

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Quaker women were often respected religious teachers and participated fully in Quaker services.

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What was slavery like in New York under the British?

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New York slavery was urban; slaves were isolated in white households, separated from partners and children

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A 1662 law changed the status of slavery in the colonies decreeing that

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a child followed his or her mother’s legal status

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When an Englishwoman had the legal status of feme sole, she

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she had some legal rights before the law

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How did the lives of women in New Netherland differ from those in the British colonies?

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Dutch women had more legal rights and economic authority than British women

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How were Native American women’s lives affected by participating in a “French country marriage”?

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They retained the right to easily divorce while gaining access to trade goods

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Nearly three-quarters of Puritan settlers who migrated to New England were

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members of families

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What was a contributing factor in the Virginia Company’s importation of 150 “tobacco brides” to Jamestown in 1620 and 1621?

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The settlers in the Chesapeake colonies were mostly male, so there was a lack of available spouses

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How did slavery in New England differ from slavery in southern colonies?

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Northern slaveholders tended to own only one or two slaves and sell them frequently, making it difficult for slaves to form families as they did in the South.

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What was required by the New England law concerning education?

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It mandated that all children, both boys and girls, be taught to read so that they could study the Scriptures.

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What was the result of the chronic shortage of marriageable Englishwomen in the southern colonies in the sixteenth century?

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Englishwomen married quickly but also had greater leverage in choosing a husband

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Which of the following was part of the Dutch concept of marriage in New Netherland?

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A married woman had a legal identity independent of her husband

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What step was among the series of developments in VIrginia that led to the legal distinction between African slaves and white free laborers?

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Imposition of tax on the labor of African women but not on white women

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Why did South Carolina planters use African women to establish rice as a staple crop?

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Women had been key participants in cultivating rice crops in Africa

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The law shaped sex roles and sexual conduct in Puritans New England by

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defining adultery as occurring only when a married woman was involved