Terms & Definitions |
Where should I look for more info? | |||||||
Primary and Secondary Sources |
History J300/400 Resource Page | |||||||
Historiography |
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Coverture |
Group 1, 3 | Kerber, Cott, Blackstone | ||||||
Dower |
Group 1 | Shammas, Ulrich | ||||||
Primogeniture |
Group 1 | Shammas | ||||||
Entail |
Group 1 | |||||||
Divorce avincula (absolute) and Divorce mensa et thoro (from bed and board) |
Group 1 | Blackstone | ||||||
Monogamy and Polygamy |
Group 2 | Cott, Shammas, Lewis | ||||||
Fornication and Adultery |
Group 2 | Ulrich | ||||||
Virtue |
Group 2 | Lewis | ||||||
Republicanism |
Group 2 | Lewis | ||||||
Rake and Coquette |
Group 2 | Lewis | ||||||
Rights and Obligations |
Group 3 | Kerber | ||||||
Citizenship |
Group 3 | Kerber | ||||||
Dependence |
Group 3 | Shammas, Brown, Kerber | ||||||
Consent |
Group 3 | Cott, Lewis, Kerber |
Tasks:
1) Use the class material to define/explain the assigned terms.
2) How do they fit into the arguments of the historians you read today? What are those arguments? What info should a notecard for each contain?
3) What argument did your groups paper writer make about married women's citizenship during the early republic? Do you all agree? How might the material you've been discussing help him/her improve their arguments?
4) Writing issues: what were strengths, weaknesses of the papers? What was the writers process for putting them together? How does this compare with the strategies others in the group use?
Big questions:
- Were married women citizens of the United States? Use this week’s readings to explain your answers.
- Was marriage in 1800 different from what it had been in 1750?