RQ 2

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

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

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

D  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.

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  She was an escaped enslaved woman who founded a business in the North. This tells us that some enslaved women were able to express historical agency and create new realities for themselves.

B  She was the first enslaved woman who became a poet, which tells us that ideas about freedom and liberty were commonplace in the Revolutionary era.

C  She was an enslaved woman owned by Thomas Jefferson and they had at least 6 children together. This tells us that some enslaved women found themselves in unconsentual sexual relationships with their masters.

D  She was the biographer of Benjamin Franklin, which tells us that some enslaved women learned to read and write.

A  Built low-cost apartments in the next town over

B  Created a boarding house with a strict curfew

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

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

A  The Lizzo Society was founded in 1804. Their differences in musical taste would have struck them as separating them. Blame it on the juice.

B  The Society for the Betterment of Women and Children was founded in 1797. The women’s marital status would have struck them as separating them.

C  The Society for the Relief of Poor Widows was founded in 1799. Their class differences, meaning economic status differences, would have struck them as separating them.

D  Women didn’t organize charities. That was a task relegated to men. Women would have seen themselves as having the exact same aims and goals, so nothing would have separated them. #girlpower