Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Antony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment
a. despite having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation.
b. because a citizen's right to vote was defined constitutionally as being limited to male citizens.
c. despite being urged by their former ally, Frederick Douglass, to support the Fourteenth Amendment in order to enshrine black civil rights into the Constitution.
d. because equal national citizenship was defined in the Constitution as limited to males.
e. All of these choices are correct.
e
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Which of the following is true concerning the involvement of free blacks in the abolitionist movement during the nation's earliest years?
A. Free blacks established their own abolitionist societies through which they extended aid to fugitive slaves. B. Free blacks did not speak in favor of abolition until a minority of whites had advocated the immediate end to slavery. C. Free blacks, like antislavery whites, recognized William Lloyd Garrison as the nation's most representative abolitionist. D. Free blacks were too busy trying to cope with a racist society to become concerned with those still enslaved.
When the Freedom Riders were arrested in Mississippi, they were:
A) escorted to the state line and set free. B) sent to the infamous Parchman prison where most spent their sixty-day sentences. C) beaten by a white mob and nearly lynched. D) treated well and sent on into Louisiana.
How did the Great Awakening affect the institution of slavery?
A) It sparked abolitionism among certain groups of colonists. B) It was used as a primary means of justifying the enslavement of Africans. C) It helped spread Christianity among slave populations. D) It informed the manner in which slave owners treated their slaves. E) It led to the construction of churches on slave plantations.
____________________, vice presidential candidate in 1840, had joined the Whig Party because of his opposition to Jackson
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