RQ 2

A  Photographs are a problematic primary source because historians have yet to figure out how to properly analyze them. We cannot know anything being suggested in the photographs of the women mill workers.

B  Photographs can be a problematic primary source because the don’t tell the entire story or show everything as it was. One thing being suggested in the mill workers photograph is that the women felt friendly, or at least unity, with one another.

C  Photographs can be a problematic primary source because they leave out information or details since they are only visual sources. The fact that the women love their jobs and are bragging about their income is suggested in the photographs of the women mill workers.

D  Photographs are a problematic primary source because they are really secondary sources since they came from technology. The mill workers are suggesting that they are wealthy from their work.

A  Harriet Jacobs attempted to murder her master after he assaulted her, which demonstrates that she was unwilling to be a victim.

B  Harriet Jacobs did not push back against the dehumanization of slavery. In fact, she wrote an autobiography where she wrote about being angry about the way her master treated her.

C  Harriet Jacobs resisted her master’s sexual advances and she took on a white lover, which demonstrates her historical agency as she made some of her own choices.

D  Harriet Jacobs had no historical agency and never resisted, which is clear in the textbook as it describes that she followed her master’s every command.

A  The Cult of True Womanhood was all about women’s feelings, and the spheres relegated to women were the ones that focused on women’s religious power.

B  The Cult of True Womanhood was a religious cult that worshiped Joan of Arc. The household sphere was relegated for women.

C  The Cult of True Womanhood meant that women were expected to be naturally pious, pure, domestic, and submissive. The domestic sphere was the sphere relegated for women.

D  The Cult of True Womanhood was a secret society of female friends. Any sphere in 19th-century America was fully open to women’s participation.

A  A three-part play called “Factory Girls” that show “mill girls” as smart and creative working women

B  Banned women from wearing make-up and heels to work

C  Built low-cost apartments in the next town over

D  Created a boarding house with a strict curfew

A  The Cherokee women stated that they didn’t care who had the land as long as there was peace.

B  The Cherokee women stated that they loved to farm and that they were good at growing corn.

C  The Cherokee women claimed that their ancestors were buried on the land, and that the land is where they as mothers raised their own children.

D  The Cherokee women claimed that the US government should listen to the male tribal leaders since men were natural born leaders.