Why did Catharine Beecher argue that women should be schoolteachers?
A) Women were best suited to instill virtues in young male children.
B) Women had a stronger moral sense than men.
C) Women were more intelligent than men.
D) Women were not qualified to work in any other occupation.
E) Women had better language and explication skills than men.
Answer: A
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A) played upon and increased the war fever by his irresponsible statements. B) caved in to pressures from Wall Street investors who wanted war. C) refused to panic, but reluctantly and hesitantly sent Congress a war message. D) refused to send a declaration of war to Congress, which declared war on its own.
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A) the invention of the cotton gin. B) the publication of The Liberator. C) the Missouri Compromise Crisis. D) British abolition of slavery in the West Indies.
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A) formalize their resistance to Booker T. Washington’s leadership role and tactics B) unite behind Booker T. Washington’s far-sighted policy of accommodation C) form an African American political party to agitate for change D) launch a new colony for black Americans fleeing racial oppression