The idea of women as naturally lusty dominated the colonial period

A) and peaked in the late 1800s.
B) and was borne out by an increase in the 1800s of premarital pregnancies.
C) but gave way to images of women as asexual.
D) but was replaced in the 1800s by ideas of innocence and chastity.


D

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The Whig Party was made up of

A) former Federalists and former Republicans who retained Jefferson's suspicion of a strong federal government. B) former Federalists and former Republicans who believed that westward expansion should end. C) former Federalists and former Republicans who believed that the national government should encourage economic development. D) former Federalists and former Republicans who refused to accept the new techniques of American politics. E) former Federalists and former Republicans who opposed plantation slavery in the South.

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The telegraph, newspapers, and political pamphlets all fostered:

A) the growth of individualism. B) a new American national culture. C) sectionalism. D) democratic idealism.

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The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

A. introduced freedom of worship to the New World. B. took vows of poverty as evidence of their commitment to their faith. C. created a colonial "theocracy." D. lived as grim and joyless people. E. fought with the surrounding Indians almost immediately.

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Frantz Fanon’s book The Wretched of the Earth is mentioned in reference to Dr. King because __________

a) it emphasized violent strategies as opposed to King’s nonviolence b) it encouraged nonviolence in a similar manner to King’s ideas c) it was the white supremacist response to King’s nonviolence d) it emphasized the religious roots of the civil rights movement

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