Can you please expand on the question
For the answer to the question above, are you referring to colonial period?
because during the colonial period, European women in America remained entitled to the legal protections provided by imperial authorities, even when they occupied unfree statuses, such as indentured servitude. For instance, when masters or mistresses mistreated their indentured servant women physically violated the terms of their labor contracts, the servants had a right to complain at the local court for redress; in some jurisdictions, their pleas met with remedies from the bench. Nevertheless, patriarchal models of authority prevailed, and despite their access to the courts, indentured women remained restricted by a series of laws that gave their masters extensive powers over them. They could not marry or travel while under contract, and if they ran away, became pregnant, or challenged their masters, they would be penalized with extra terms of service. While the law in Virginia, for instance, penalized masters who impregnated their servant women by freeing the latter, at the same time the statute averred that such women might be unfairly “induced to lay all their illegitimate to their masters” in order to gain their freedom. The statutory language is clearly indicative of class-based notions of dissolute sexuality. Indeed, the statutes enacted across imperial North America, like those iterated above, were devoted to creating and enforcing differences among women on the basis of not only race but class as well.
The answer to this is B, hope it helps.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Evaluate the extent to which the progressive movement fostered political change in the united states from 1890 to 1920.
During a time of many changes in the conformation of the United States, the Progressive movement from 1890 to 1920 was a period where reformations accomplished many things that the American people needed. The most important: to modernize a federal government that needed a "shake and some cleaning," and reformations that improved education and promoted suffrage for women in America. Many journalists started to investigate corruption cases in the government and exposed them in their newspapers. The passage of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution was another important piece of legislation in the Progressive Era.
