One of the suffragists' more successful justifications was the "purity" argument that
A) women's moral superiority would clean up politics if they were given the vote.
B) because women were no more pure or impure than men, they had nothing to lose by voting.
C) women must first purify politics through religion, then they should get the vote.
D) women's moral superiority would be endangered by voting unless illiterate blacks and immigrants were disfranchised.
A
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A) 1626–1650. B) 1676–1700. C) 1751–1775. D) 1776–1800.
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a. in order to acquire New Mexico and California. b. by sending General Zachary Taylor and four thousand soldiers to patrol the Rio Grande. c. by encouraging settlers in Monterey, California to dream of U.S. annexation. d. by attempting to buy New Mexico and California. e. all of these choices
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