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It provides new interpretations of women’s relationship to work and the law.

It resolves some of the ambiguities inherent in Turnerian and Reactionist thought.

It has recently been discounted by new research gathered on women’s experience.

It avoids extreme positions taken by other writers on women’s history.

It was the first school of thought to suggest substantial revisions to the Frontier Thesis.

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II only

III only

I and II only

I, II and III

provide a framework within which the history of women in nineteenth-century America can be organized

discuss divergent interpretations of women’s experience on the western frontier

introduce a new hypothesis about women’s experience in nineteenth-century America

advocate an empirical approach to women’s experience on the western frontier

resolve ambiguities in several theories about women’s experience on the western frontier

A current interpretation of a phenomenon is described and then ways in which it was developed are discussed.

Three theories are presented and then a new hypothesis that discounts those theories is described.

An important theory and its effects are discussed and then ways in which it has been revised are described.

A controversial theory is discussed and then viewpoints both for and against it are described.

A phenomenon is described and then theories concerning its correctness are discussed.

Frontier women relied on smaller support groups of relatives and friends in the West than they had in the East.

The urban frontier in the West offered more occupational opportunity than the agricultural frontier offered.

Women participated more fully in the economic decisions of the family group in the West than they had in the East.

Western women received financial compensation for labor that was comparable to what women received in the East.

Western women did not have an effect on divorce laws, but lawmakers in the West were more responsive to women’s concerns than lawmakers in the East were.

Continuity, not change, marked women’s lives as they moved from East to West.

Women’s experience on the North American frontier has not received enough attention from modern historians.

Despite its rigors, the frontier offered women opportunities that had not been available in the East.

Gender relations were more difficult for women in the West than they were in the East.

Women on the North American frontier adopted new roles while at the same time reaffirming traditional roles.

They misunderstood the powerful influence of constrictive stereotypes on women in the East.

They assumed that the frontier had offered more opportunities to women than had the East.

They included accurate information about women’s experiences on the frontier.

They underestimated the endurance and fortitude of frontier women.

They agreed with some of Turner’s assumptions about frontier women, but disagreed with other assumptions that he made.