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Marriage
Education
Household Roles
Social Status
Punishments
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What is the legal age to marry?
100
What most women were taught
What is reading and writing?
100
Women would never be able to do this
What is entering a profession?
100
The whooping stool
What is the punishment for disobeying men?
200
What a woman had to present to her husband before marriage
What is a dowry?
200
What most upper class families hired for their daughters to learn at home
What are tutors?
200
What women were expected to be
What are housewives and mothers?
200
Women had few of these
What are legal rights?
200
What cage gossipers were put into
What is a brank?
300
This was associated with widows and single women
What is witchcraft?
300
What some rich Elizabethan girls gained access through their tutors
What are ancient languages and literature?
300
Running the household and helping her husband in whatever he did
What is a wife's job?
300
They were expected to obey any of these
What are male members of the family?
400
Women became this after getting married
What is their husband's property?
400
Most Elizabethan girls were given instruction in these
What is piety, chastity, and "home economics?"
400
Spinning and weaving
What is a poor woman's work?
400
Men had this over women
What is great influence?
400
A man could beat his wife with this as long as it wasn't thicker than his thumb
What is with a stick?
500
Wealth and reputation
What is marriage arranged for?
500
Singing and playing with little pet dogs
What is an upper class wive's activities?
500
When women's speech was too brazen or free they were put on these
What is the ducking stool?