Why did women activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony oppose ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?
A) It did not provide universal suffrage for both men and women.
B) It restricted suffrage to middle class and rich African Americans.
C) It gave women suffrage but failed to do so for African Americans.
D) It would establish an interracial democracy, which made them uncomfortable.
A
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To many, Calvinism possessed the potential to __________.
A. be as dogmatic and rigid as Catholicism B. offer a life removed from political struggles C. be the key to internal reforms of the Catholic Church D. support the interests of centralized states
How did family life change as a result of urbanization and industrialization?
a. Working-class families tended to form loose family ties. b. Parents and children worked more or less together. c. Family members rarely worked together. d. Working-class families began to move out of cities to the suburbs.
The election of 1848 was a warning that __________.
A. political parties no longer represented a national political community B. Democratic attacks on slavery threatened to fragment the Union C. the South was becoming a Whig-only region D. the loyalty to the nation outweighed sectional identity in most voters' minds
What did the rabbis do for the continuation and organization of Jewish worship?
A) They took the worship out of the temple and into meeting houses in an effort to organize after their ousting from Jerusalem. B) They tried to stop the fighting among various groups of worshippers and the Gentiles and bring peace to the lands they now occupied. C) They limited the worship of God to only those devoted to the Hebrew bible and the Laws set forth. D) They spread the word of God to bring many followers to His worship. E) They attempted to create one consensus on how to worship God and what writings should be used, and the subsequent laws. Thus, the Hebrew bible was created out of thirty-nine holy works.