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1
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Mixed woman of English and Creek. Married to 3 men, all white. She and her husbands opened a trading post with Indians

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Mary Bosonworth

2
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An English Catholic Woman, never married, she became a very wealthy land owner, very politically influential

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Margaret Brent

3
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Quaker who was executed in Massachusetts

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Mary Dyer

4
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Quaker missionaries (2)

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Jane Fenn, Sarah Morris

5
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Didn’t follow the puritans belief , holding prayer meetings preaching like a minister and flew out of Massachusetts for exile

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Anne Hutchinson

6
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Captured and adopted into the seneca tribe when she was 15. Refused to return when the opportunity came

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Mary Jemison

7
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A slave who managed to gain freedom and bought their own peace of lands and became very successful farmers

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Mary Johnson

8
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Dutch colonist who was a successful business women

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Margaret Hardenbroeck

9
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Taken captive and wrote a book about it called true history of true captivity of miss Mary Rowlandson

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Mary Rowlandson

10
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Taken to court for promising to marrying several men

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Eleanor Spragg

11
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Daughter of a chief of the mohawk and a christian women from another tribe grew up christian the first native american saint

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Kateri Tekakwitha

12
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Identity and property comes from the mother

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Matrilineal

13
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Identity and property comes through the father

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Patrilineal

14
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The young married couple goes to live with the mother

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Matrifocal

15
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Not actually marriages. Generally white man indian american women who decided to live together for live and have a family

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Country Marriages*

16
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Women marrying men for drugs

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Tobacco Brides*

17
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English married ladies

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Good wives

18
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Married women

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Feme covert

19
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Women who never married or widowed

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Femes sole

20
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Helped coach women to give birth to a baby

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Midwives

21
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Gender composition of Jamestown prior to 1620

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first Africans arrive in James town
first saw women in jamestown
first democratic assembly in america

22
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Proportion of women who arrived in the Chesapeake as indentured servants

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3/4 of women came from England as indentured servants

1/4 women came to marry a specific person for tobacco

23
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Important legal function often exercised by women in the southern colonies

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women become a deputy husband and represent her husband in legal matters if he was away

24
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Taxation of women’s labor?

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labor of black women’s taxed not white women in portions of the south

25
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Status of marriage in the New England colonies

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legal relationships

26
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Could women in the English colonies divorce their husbands?

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yes if they were abandoned and husband beat the wife severely

27
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Legal “victim” in cases of rape in New England

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the husband of the women that had been raped

28
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Important legal function often exercised by women in New England

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running their husbands homes

29
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Married women working outside the home in New England?

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Not married women/widows

30
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Reasons for the occurrence of witchcraft hysteria in New England (4)

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  1. religious tension between churches
  2. nervous because of indian attacks
  3. the population is growing and puts pressure on land available
  4. economic change
31
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Changes in the lives of New England women in the late 18th century (4)

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  1. purchase goods you used to make
  2. increase in feminine skills “needle work”
  3. some even married will work outside the home
  4. widows own their own business
32
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Dutch view of the relationship between husband and wife

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Equal Partners

33
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Legal status of women in English colonies

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nonexistent they were treated like children or feeble minded

34
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Quaker view concerning equality

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believes all people were equal/ pacifist