Who was a leading advocate of the "cult of domesticity"?
a. Susan B. Anthony
b. Catherine Beecher
c. Margaret Fuller
d. Amelia Bloomer
e. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b
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The first major turnpike in the country was the:
a. Henry Hudson Parkway b. Cumberland Road c. Philadelphia Lancaster Road d. Erie Canal
According to the introductory video in section 8.5, what have historians used to understand women’s lives in early America?
A) private conversations between Abigail Adams and her servants B) notes Abigail Adams took during the Constitutional Convention C) letters Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams D) speeches Abigail Adams delivered before her marriage
In the 1950s, 25 percent of all women attending college __________
A) were from poor families B) majored in home economics C) were from minority groups D) married before completing their degree
Enlightened Absolutism
a. was based more on practical measures to strengthen the power of the state than to "reform" and free their populations. b. was best illustrated by the activity of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. c. was truly applied only briefly, in the ten months before the death of Emelyan Pugachev. d. was limited by the desires of the middle classes to retain their special advantages. e. best describes the British government in the eighteenth century.