Chapter 5 Quiz: Gold Rush & Civil War

Prostitution in California in the mid-nineteenth century had a distinct racial hierarchy with which group at the bottom?

What was one remarkable aspect of women's involvement in the antebellum reform movement?

Moral reform activists viewed prostitutes as

What argument drew many women to the temperance movement in the 1840s and 1850s?

The Shakers, founded by Mother Ann Lee, challenged conventional notions of marriage by

Many female abolitionists were pushed toward advocating women's rights by their realization that

Congress responded to the petition drive of female abolitionists in the 1830s by

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 issued a manifesto that in both style and philosophy echoed the Declaration of Independence when it called for

In the 1840s, Elizabeth Cady Stanton lobbied to get the New York legislature to pass a bill that

During the Civil War, northern women activists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, formed the Women's National Loyal League to

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–1852) dramatized

The year 1848 was significant in U.S. history because the Mexican War, Seneca Falls Convention, and founding of the Free Soil Party all inaugurated

What do documents detailing life on the Oregon Trail show?

In a recurring example of cross-cultural misunderstanding, white emigrants on the Oregon Trail often believed they were under imminent attack by Native Americans when

What happened to many Native women who left their own people to live with white men in informal sexual and domestic unions at U.S. Army forts or trading centers in the West?

The work of northern women during the Civil War differed from that of southern women in that they

In the spring of 1863, the women of Richmond rioted in the streets protesting

During the California gold rush, most middle-class women who traveled with their husbands to the gold-digging sites made money by

During the moral reform movement in the late 1830s, women emphasized their Christian maternal role and responsibilities in order to

By participating in the temperance movement, women were able to

Antebellum female health activists, responding to women's menstrual, reproductive, and sexual complaints, advocated that

The Oneida community, which challenged many notions of conventional marriage, earned its greatest notoriety by

The call for the immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery and full civil rights for black people came first from

How did the activities of the Grimké sisters produce a split in the abolitionist movement?

The most controversial resolution of the "Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions" passed at the Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848 was that

What was the major issue facing reformers and the country in the 1850s?

In 1863, New York City was paralyzed by mobs rioting and protesting

Read the following excerpt and then choose the statement that best applies. Barbara Longknife to Stand Watie, Coloma, June 8, 1954 Dear Sir, I gladly embrace the present operunity of addressing you by the way of this letter. we are in moderate health at the present time and hope these lines may find you and your family emjoying the same blessing. we have made nothing in this country as yet more than barely supported the family. William has been trying his luck in the mines, did not make it pay over board, we have had a great deal of sickness in our family since we came to this Country and our doctor bills has cost us a great many dollars together with other expenses connected with Dr. Bills. we are still living in Coloma and I think it is very probable we will remain here as long as we stay in this Country. I would like very much to see all my old friends in the nation. California is not what it was represented to be, if I was back again I would let California be the last place that I would go to. I am engage in washing at present and have been for a considerable length of time it pays better than anything else that I can do. give my best respects to Mr. Huss and all enquiring friends & receive for your self and family the same. Yu will please write when this comes to hand and give me all the news of importance. William & myself are the only ones of the mess that I know anything about. R. Tuff died on the plains. Welch died after we got here, the last I heard of your Brother Charles he was going north in 52, have’nt heard from him since. John Candy is in this country somewhere, was in this place a few days since, he has not made his pile yet, when you write you will direct your letter to Coloma Eldorado Co California Very respectfully your friend Barbary Longknife Source: Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, 5th edition, Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Bedford St. Martins, Boston: 2019, 262.

Read the following excerpt and then choose the statement that best applies. Barbara Longknife to Stand Watie, Coloma, June 8, 1954 Dear Sir, I gladly embrace the present operunity of addressing you by the way of this letter. we are in moderate health at the present time and hope these lines may find you and your family emjoying the same blessing. we have made nothing in this country as yet more than barely supported the family. William has been trying his luck in the mines, did not make it pay over board, we have had a great deal of sickness in our family since we came to this Country and our doctor bills has cost us a great many dollars together with other expenses connected with Dr. Bills. we are still living in Coloma and I think it is very probable we will remain here as long as we stay in this Country. I would like very much to see all my old friends in the nation. California is not what it was represented to be, if I was back again I would let California be the last place that I would go to. I am engage in washing at present and have been for a considerable length of time it pays better than anything else that I can do. give my best respects to Mr. Huss and all enquiring friends & receive for your self and family the same. Yu will please write when this comes to hand and give me all the news of importance. William & myself are the only ones of the mess that I know anything about. R. Tuff died on the plains. Welch died after we got here, the last I heard of your Brother Charles he was going north in 52, have’nt heard from him since. John Candy is in this country somewhere, was in this place a few days since, he has not made his pile yet, when you write you will direct your letter to Coloma Eldorado Co California Very respectfully your friend Barbary Longknife Source: Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, 5th edition, Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, Bedford St. Martins, Boston: 2019, 262.