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HIST 150 Final Exam Study Guide

Your final is on Wednesday 5/28 from 6:30‒9 PM. Please bring a LARGE blank Bluebook to the final.

(They can be purchased at the NVC bookstore.) Your final is worth 125 points.

For tips on how to prepare for the final exam see your Midterm Study Guide.

Essay Questions (80 points)

Four of the following will appear on the final exam; you will have to choose two to answer. Each essay

question is worth 40 points. Use specific historical examples to back up your statements. These examples

should include information such as specific names, dates, events, sources, and ideas. Each of your answers

should be around 1.5 sides of a bluebook page.

1. Compare the lives of white women and enslaved African American women in the antebellum South.

2. What can the utopian communities of the antebellum period tell us about how Americans viewed men,

women and sex?

3. What roles did women play in the Civil War?

4. Discuss the course of the women’s rights movement from 1848 to 1874. What divisions emerged within

the movement? What obstacles did the movement face?

5. Using at least three of the following pictures to illustrate your points, describe the New Woman.

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6. To what extent did working class and immigrant women, on the one hand, and American-born upper and

middle class women, on the other hand, have similar experiences and concerns during the later

nineteenth century?

7. Discuss the impact of westward expansion on the lives of Native American women in the late 1800s.

8. Using at least three of the following four images, discuss the differing ways that women have been used

to represent countries and peoples by artists and the media. What political messages do these images

convey? What can they tell us about gender roles in American history?

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Identifications (45 points)

Ten of the following will appear on the final; you will have to choose five to identify. (The pictures are also

IDs.) Each ID is worth 9 points. In your answer you should briefly (but in complete sentences) address the

following: who, what, where, when, and why it is important. Each of your answers should be around 1

paragraph long.

Pocahontas

Virginia law of 1643 on the taxation of labor

feme sole vs feme covert

Mum Bett aka Elizabeth Freeman

“Molly Pitchers”

Republican Motherhood

Catharine Beecher

“passionlessness”

Harriet Jacobs

“Lowell girls”

Abby Kelly and the American Anti-slavery Society

antebellum temperance movement

Jacksonianism

Shakers

californianas

bond marriages

Dame Shirley

Olive Oatman

the “marriage market” in California in the 1850s

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

nurse Cornelia Hancock

Mother Bickerdyke

Women’s National Loyal League

Ida B. Wells

AWSA (est. 1869)

Susan B. Anthony

the New Departure argument

Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887)

Knights of Labor

the American Federation of Labor and the “family

wage”

the Bissell vacuum cleaner

WCTU (est. 1874)

“normal colleges”

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

the settlement house movement

Margaret Sanger

WNIA (est. 1874)

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin aka Zitkala-Ša

Zintkala Colby

“soft imperialism”

Queen Lilioukalani

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolves (1848)

Illinois Factory and Workshop Inspection Act (1893)

cult of female invalidism; hysteria; conservation of energy

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