Week 2
A system of power where men hold the majority of the economic, social and political power and women are excluded and/or oppressed
Patriarchy
The Doctrine of Discovery
Give me the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Republican Motherhood
Who:
What:
Where:
When:
Why:
The idea that the U.S. was given a responsibility by God to expand its borders
Manifest Destiny
The political cause of ending enslavement
Abolition
What decade did mainstream scholars start investigating women's history?
1960s
2 physical reminders of colonization in California
Forts/Presidios
Churches/Missions
What is the significance of Ona Judge and Sally Hemmings when considering the rhetoric of the Revolutionary era (freedom! liberty! justice! etc.)
Hypocritical political ideas
Caused by a desire for more land to grow cotton and Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
She wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Can everyone be a feminist?
Yes! Feminism = the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes
The big word that colonizers used to justify colonizing, as if it were a favor to conquered peoples
Civilizing/Civilization
The Constitution protected enslavers and the system of slavery in 2 key ways
3/5 Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Law
The U.S. provoked it, and it ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Mexican American War
What tactics did Abolitionists use?
Speeches, Petitions, Publications like pamphlets and books, Writing and published slave narratives, and Revolts and rebellions
What is an example of a primary and a secondary source - that we have read in this class?
Varies
"the status of the child follows the status of the Mother"
Sequitur Ventrem
In Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, he expressed many ____________ ideas
Racist
What were the elements of "progress" brought by the floating woman in the painting "American Progress"
Telegraph, agriculture, train, removal of indigenous peoples, replacing tipis with log cabins
What year was the institution of slavery finally outlawed in the U.S?
1865
Why is studying women's history difficult for historians?
Varies
Coverture
Why was Republican Motherhood a conservative idea?
It continued to make women's primary role be a mother/wife
Eve Tuck's 3 pillars of Settler Colonialism
"Native", "Settler", and "Chattel Slave"
Who was Angelina Grimke?
A daughter of a family of enslavers, grew up to be the most hardcore white female abolitionist