Quiz #1 Study Questions

Question #1: Through Women's Eyes Chapter 5: In this era of "shifting boundaries", what do you think had the most impact on redefining options and opportunities for women--in providing women more individual autonomy--expansion west, antebellum reform, or the Civil War?

You will have one of the following questions on your quiz:
1-To what extent did expansion west provide women with more opportunities for individual autonomy? Why or why not?
2-What impact did antebellum reform have on the options open to women in the East and Midwest?
3-What was the impact of the Civil War on the status of Southern women? Explain.

Question #2: Through Women's Eyes Chapter 6: "Reconstructing Women's Lives North and South, 1865-1900"
You will have one of the following questions on your quiz:
1-How did the Fifteenth Amendment affect women?
2-What was the impact of Reconstruction on freedwomen?
3-What impact did antebellum reform have on the options open to women in the East and Midwest?
4-What affect did leisure time have on the choices open to women?

Question #3: Unequal Sisters

You will have one of the following questions on your quiz:
1-Freedman on "Race and Politics of Identity":
2-Boyd on "Bodies in Motion": Who was Babe Bean aka Jack Garland? Does Boyd help you think about history in a different way? Why or why not?
3-Liu on "Women's Differences and Historical Process": What does Liu say is the relationship between racism and sexism?
4-Brooks on "Captivity in New Mexico": Who are the captives that Brooks addresses in this chapter, and what was the impact of captivity on the women?
5 Camp on "Pleasures of Resistance": In what ways did slave women find some measure of control over their bodies and lives?
6-Chavez-Garcia on "Race, Culture and Justice in Los Angeles": What does the case of Guadalupe Trujillo reveal about social class and justice in Mexican Los Angeles? (What was the outcome and why?)

7-Mihesuah on "Class System among Cherokees": What does Mihesuah say was the overwhelming impact of the Cherokee Female Seminary on the young girls who attended? Why?
8-Raibmon-"Indigenous Women at Work in Puget Sound": To what extent did hop picking provide opportunities for Indigenous women in the Puget Sound region? Explain.

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Quiz #2: 4 March

Question #1: Through Women's Eyes Chapter 7: "Women in an Expanding Nation"

You will have one of the following questions on your quiz:

1-What roles did women play in the defense and conquest of the West? Give three examples.

2-Were there differences in the ways in which immigrant mothers and daughters adapted to life in the United States?

3-To what extent did women help to define populism, labor actions, and the Settlement House Movement? Which of these would you have become involvd in (as a woman) and why?

4-Who was Zitkala-Sa, and how was she significant?

5-Who was Jane Addmas and how was she significant?

6-What do Jacob Riis' photographs reveal about women of this era, what three adjectives come to mind?

7-What do the Puck Cartoons reveal about women of this era, what three adjectives best describe social attitudes about women?

Question #2: Through Women's Eyes Chapter 8: "Power & Politics"

1-What are the changes and continuities in the female wage-labor force?

2-To what extent to politically active women have an impact on political parties?

3-How do younger women influence the course of the suffrage movement? Its success?

4-What is the "feminist program" and to what extent do you think it incorporated the Birth Control Movement?

Question #3:

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Camp (83): In what ways was the enslaved woman's body the center of struggle for power?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Fahs (130): In what ways did the popular literature of the North affect memories of the CW?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Brown (156): In what ways were freedwomen political in the years after the CW?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Ruiz (248): How did migration influence the establishment of immigrant communities?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Yung (259): How do the writings found in the Chung Sai Yat Po between 1900 and 1911 reflect the experiences of young Chinese American women?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Meyerowitz (325): To what extent did women define the workplaces found in the furnished-room districts of Chicago between 1890 and 1930, and to what extent did this "geography" change?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Gordon (221): In what ways did women work on behalf of women's welfare between 1890 and 1945, and how did the activism of black and white women's communities compare?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: DuBois (271): What wa the role of Harriot Stanton Blatch in the NY Woman Suffrage Movement and why? What were her goals for the movement?

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Reading Questions for Study (they will not be on your MT Exam)

Question #1: Through Women's Eyes Chapter 9: "Change & Continuity," 520-535

1-To what extent do you find that opportunities change for young women in the 1920s? Why or why not?

Question #2:

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Higginbotham (289): How do black women become involved in party politics in the 1920s?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Pascoe (303): According to miscegination laws, how did Americans view "race" in 20th century America?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Peiss (342): To what extent do you think the cosmetics industry was significant in defining gender between 1890 and 1930?

Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Ruiz (363): What was the impact of Hollywood and American culture on young Mexican American women between 1920 and 1950?

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Quiz #3 (See Below)

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Quiz #3 & #4: 4/29

Question #1:
1-(Her Eyes, Chapter 9, 535-) How did the Great Depression/ New Deal affect women? Make a list of 4 significant ways women are affected.
2-(Her Eyes, Chapter 10) How did WWII open up wage-labor jobs for women?
3-(Her Eyes, Chapter 11) How do women's lives change b/t 1945 and 1965, and why? List major changes and address the MAJOR REASON these changes occur.
4-(Her eyes, Chapter 11) Of the issues raised by women b/t 1965 and 1980, which do you think most significant?

5 & 6-(Ruiz, Unequal Sisters)
Summarize the Main Point for TWO of these essays, your choice.
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Choy (563)
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Camacho (577)
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Higginbotham (289), Pascoe (303), Peiss (342)
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Choy (563)
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Camacho (577)
Ruiz, Unequal Sisters: Higginbotham (289), Pascoe (303), Peiss (342)

Question #2:
2-What do you think are the reasons that Susan Brownmiller becomes involved in the Women's Liberation Movement? Why does she become involved?

Question #3:
3-Suburban Warriors (2/3rds): According to McGirr, how do women in Orange County help in constructing the New Right? What is their role and how do they do it?