Women's+History+beginning-revolution

Women's History: Colonial Era to the Revolutionary War by Danielle Zuccaro


 * __matrilineal:__ many Native Americans and Africans had societies that contained strong family roles on the mothers' side
 * characteristics: land inheritance, controlled social and economic organization of settlements (N/A), divided work by gender.
 * __intermarriage:__ between Europeans and Indians- offspring was called mestizos
 * men wanted companionship
 * need for labor among whites
 * formed alliances between Spanish and the Indians
 * between whites and black Africans- called mulatos
 * "dame schools": schools for children in women's homes
 * Anne Hutchinson: argued that the clergy that had not undergone a conversion experience couldn't hold spiritual office.
 * condemned all but 2 ministers in MA.
 * had strong opinions about women's roles in Puritan society
 * challenged the religious beliefs and social order of Puritans
 * most of her followers eventually settled in NH.
 * __Salem witch trials:__ targeted women who did not fit into normal pattern of male-domination; they were vulnerable because of subordinate place in society; women who acted abnormally were killed in various ways (19 killed)
 * __Margaret Fell:__ urged Quakers to "treamble at teh name of the Lord"
 * rejected predestination and original sin
 * granted an equal position to men and women in the church
 * __Mercy Otis Warren:__ writer and playwrite who wrote dissent literature
 * __Daughters of Liberty:__ mocked men for not being militant enough in the effort to break from Britain
 * __Molly Pitcher:__ involved on the battlefield with other women disguised as men
 * __Abigail Adams:__ wanted an expansion of women's rights, and protection for women against abusive men
 * __Judith Sargent Murray:__ leading essayist of the 18th century; advocate for women's education
 * __republican motherhood:__ role of women to instill in their children the virtues of a republican citizen
 * __cult of domesticity:__ idea that women should be contained in separate spheres than men; they were supposed to be seen and not heard by being homemakers and caretakers of the home/children

Abigail Adams

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