HIS 315K Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: French Americans, Neolin, Gilbert Tennent
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Chapter 4: growth and crisis in colonial society (1720 1765) 1630"s puritans fled england small elites of nobles owned 75% land (leaseholding: contrary, new england puritans had society of equal landowning farm societies but by the 1750"s the. Patricia castro: farm families: women in the household economy. Puritan"s vision of social equality didn"t extend to women: being richer, smarter, higher social status mattered little. Husband the head of the household: wife"s duty to love and reverence husband, women learned subordinate role throughout lives. 3: were told to be silent, were prosecuted way more for having affairs, marriage portions were inferior to brothers. Farm wives tended garden, wove clothes, preserved meat, fermented malt, etc: notable women were those who excelled at domestic arts. Restrictions: ministers praised women for piety but didn"t have equal role in church, women sought other churches were treated equally (quakers)
