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Short Answer Question Discuss the relatively egalitarian roles occupied by Native American men and women in America in the 1500s. Include their economy, spirituality and religion, sexuality (including non-heterosexuality), and political roles.  Use specific examples from Pueblo and Iroquois societies.

Most northern enslaved women worked in cities as domestic servants, and were sold in accordance with labor needs, which made it difficult for these women to form ________.

Women in the Colonies had high mortality rates, due to:

Women were not generally part of those who immigrated to the colonies until after the 1700s. Some men paid with crops for women to join them in the colonies; these women are known as: _________.

These individuals were often the “bridge” between their societies and European societies: _______.

Essay Question Pocahontas was invaluable to early British colonists. Describe how her status within Native American society helped colonists.  What crop did she introduce to European colonists, and how did the cultivation of that crop lead to the enslavement of African American people?  How was she received by people in England?

Short Answer Question Discuss the ramifications of feme covert and the cases of feme sole examined in the textbook. Which was better?  How could women move from one to the other?  What advantages were there to being considered feme sole?  What advantages were there to being considered feme covert?   

Sometimes Native American people were transgender and took on the roles and duties of the opposite sex. Anthropologists refer to these individuals as: ________.

Short Answer Question Discuss how “Liberty’s Daughters” participated in the Revolutionary War, even from the restricted roles permitted them. Do you think they had an effect upon the outcome of the War?  In what ways?

Tobacco was introduced to British colonists by this Native American woman: ________.