1. What were the duties of pioneering women on the trail west? What losses did they suffer to settle in the West?

2. What impact did the arrival of American settlers from the East have on Mexican and Native American women?

3. Did the settlers bring greater freedom and opportunity for women as whole? Which group of women benefited the most from migration? Who lost the most?

4. Describe the conditions under which prostitutes earned their living.

5. Why did middle-class women organize to expand "woman's sphere?" What were the motivations behind the organization of female reform societies?

6. In what different ways did communitarian societies and religious sects seek to alter the sexual expectations of mainstream marriage?

7. Describe the roadblocks women faced when they joined the abolitionist movement. What did they do to overcome these obstacles?

8. What were the connections between the women's rights movement and the abolitionists?

9. Why was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 held? What was the outcome of the convention?

10. Describe the various relief organizations founded by or run by women during the Civil War