-What Did the Court Decision in the 1805 Case of Martin

question 7

Multiple Choice

-What did the court decision in the 1805 case of Martin v. Commonwealth, which returned a Loyalist woman's confiscated property to her heir, reveal about women's roles in the decades immediately after the American Revolution?

• A) The ideals of individual autonomy and liberty emphasized during the Revolution gave them the right to decide whether to flee or to stay on Patriot-controlled lands during that conflict.
• B) They had gained the power to execute their final wills and testaments and could choose to pass on property to whomever they wanted.
• C) The doctrine of coverture took away their legal rights and personal identity when they married so that they had to abide by their husbands' decisions.
• D) Women who owned property at the time of the Revolution received the right to vote in state elections.

---

Definitions:

Sample Size

The number of observations or dataset elements selected from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.

Sample Means

The average value of a set of samples from a population.

Freshmen

First-year students at a high school, college, or university.

Simple Random Sample

A sample in which each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected, ensuring that the sample accurately reflects the population from which it is drawn.