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IDENTIFICATION (paragraph using specific evidence from lectures/not essay):To what extent did gender norms shift after the American Revolution for white women, Black women, and Native American women?

SHORT ANSWER (not essay):List the 3 points of difference between anti-slavery advocates and abolitionists.

The revisionist belief that the South lost the Civil War because of over-reliance on King Cotton, not lack of martial valor, and fought the Civil War over states’ rights not slavery is called the [BLANK-1].

[BLANK-1] was an antebellum reform movement that enabled people to indirectly raise issues about family violence.

In the colonial era, marriage in British households was viewed/valued as [BLANK-1].

In the colonial era, divorce a vinculo matrimonii was only possible for which reasons? [BLANK-1]

IMG_0747.jpeg This image is an example of [BLANK-1] (hint- concept focused on) during the early part of the colonial era.

The excerpt below is taken from the [BLANK-1] and uses the political theory by [BLANK-2] (hint- person). We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The court case [BLANK-1] ruled that “color blind” laws such as literacy tests for voting were legal.

During Reconstruction, the [BLANK-1] and the [BLANK-2] used gender norms of women as maternal and not political to promote pride in southern white manhood.