Chapter 14

Quiz for Chapter Fourteen Interpretations: How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction?

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Question 1

According to historian Tera Hunter, how did African American laboring women of the Reconstruction period best assert their power and independence?A. Organized collective bargaining units
B. Exercised religious piety
C. Self-imposed limits on willingness to work
D. Violently resisted labor injustice

Question 2

In her assessment of Reconstruction-era African American workingwomen’s status, Jacqueline Jones asserts that opportunity was restricted by poverty and race, as well asA. gender-based roles and restrictions.
B. male neglect and abandonment.
C. scripture and religious hierarchy.
D. sexual violence and abuse.

Question 3

Tera Hunter focuses her evaluation of African American workingwomen during Reconstruction on their roles in the wage-labor economy, while Jacqueline Jones concentrates on their status withinA. the church hierarchy.
B. family and kinship structures.
C. political organizations.
D. sharecropping communities.