Which of the following statements is correct?
A. William Harper argued that slaveholding was essentially a matter of property rights.
B. Proslavery writers in the 1840s and 1850s asserted that whites were the more intellectual race, and blacks the race more inherently physical and destined for labor.
C. Presbyterian minister George Bourne was welcomed in Virginia for his antislavery sermons.
D. John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams were close allies in the antislavery movement.
Answer: B
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CORRECT statements that describe efforts to reform society during the Progressive era.
What will be an ideal response?
The "cult of true womanhood" identified women with
A) the burgeoning movement to obtain their rights. B) the full range of their occupations, from laborer to mother. C) piety, motherhood, and sexual passivity. D) their new role as consumers in the competitive marketplace. E) their weakness and tendency toward moral depravity.
Which of the following was a problem with Progressive efforts to reform corrupt politics?
a. They often failed because special-interest groups could use large sums of money to influence the voting. b. More often than not, the courts struck down Progressive measures. c. Only the poor and ethnic minorities supported them. d. Groups such as the National Civic Federation steadfastly refused to endorse them.