What was a difference between the rights in marriage of women in the Chesapeake region and those of women in New England in the 1600s?
A) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have more power because they were fewer in number and thus began from a better bargaining position.
B) Women in New England had more rights because there were more women there and they had greater strength as a community.
C) Women in New England had fewer rights because the colonists there came from more strict and traditional backgrounds.
D) Women in the Chesapeake region tended to have fewer rights because the planter class had more restrictions on the roles of women in society.
E) Women in New England had fewer rights because the women there tended to live much shorter lives than those in the Chesapeake region.
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
Which of the following helps explains the rapid growth of discriminatory laws in the late nineteenth- century South?
a. Many northerners had lost interest in guarding the rights of blacks. b. The black population of the South was growing faster than the white population of the South. c. Race relations were destabilized by industrialization in the South. d. Supreme Court rulings favoring minority rights created a white backlash.
Royal Egyptian women, particularly during the Eighteenth Dynasty:
A. wielded considerable influence. B. were never depicted in Egyptian art. C. were drawn larger than their husbands and sons in art works. D. wielded little to no influence. E. were not allowed to own and control property.
Which of the following had the strongest tradition of parliamentary rule?
A) Spanish Netherlands B) Poland-Lithuania C) Holy Roman Empire D) Ottoman Empire
Most Asian migrants came into the country through Ellis Island
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false