When you are reading through the passage, keep asking yourself, Why the author is writing this? How his ideas are organized?
Always bear in mind: Why and How!
GWD1-Q4 to Q6:
The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil War) political history and women’s
history use separate sources and focus on separate issues. Political historians, examining sources such
as voting records, newspapers, and politicians’ writings, focus on the
emergence in the 1840’s of a new “American political nation,” and since women
were neither voters nor politicians, they receive little discussion. Women’s historians, meanwhile, have shown
little interest in the subject of party politics, instead drawing on personal
papers, legal records such as wills, and records of female associations to
illuminate women’s domestic lives, their moral reform activities, and the
emergence of the woman’s rights movement.
Structure: two studies, political history and women's history, corresponding to two groups: political historian and women's historian. Their definitions.
However, most historians have underestimated the extent and significance
of women’s political allegiance (忠诚) in the antebellum period. For example, in the presidential election
campaigns of the 1840’s, the
Virginia Whig party （格辉党） strove to win the allegiance of Virginia’s women by inviting them to rallies
and speeches. According to Whig propaganda,
women who turned out at the party’s rallies gathered information that enabled
them to mold（塑造，造模） party-loyal families, reminded men of moral values that transcended（超越）
party loyalty, and conferred（授予） moral standing （地位名声准则） on the party. Virginia Democrats,
in response, began to make similar appeals to women as well. By the mid-1850’s the inclusion of women in
the rituals of party politics had become commonplace, and the ideology(意识形态) that
justified such inclusion had been assimilated by the Democrats.
Structure: focus on political historians and point out the deficiency of their studies, key word: HOWEVER, and underestimated.
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GWD1-Q4:
The primary purpose of the passage
as a whole is to
A. examine the tactics of antebellum
political parties with regard to women
B. trace the effect of politics on the
emergence of the woman’s rights movement
C.
point out a deficiency in the study of a particular historical
period
Introduce two studies and examine the deficiency of one of them
D. discuss the ideologies of opposing
antebellum political parties
E. contrast the methodologies in two
differing fields of historical inquiry
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GWD1-Q5:
According to the second paragraph of the passage (lines
20-42), Whig propaganda included the assertion that
A. women should enjoy more political
rights than they did
B. women were the most important influences on
political attitudes within a family
C. women’s reform activities reminded
men of important moral values
D. women’s demonstrations at rallies
would influence men’s voting behavior
E.
women’s presence at rallies would enhance the moral standing of the
party Key word: turn out=presence
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GWD1-Q6:
According to the passage, which of
the following was true of Virginia Democrats in the mid-1850’s?
A. They feared that their party was
losing its strong moral foundation.
B. They believed that the Whigs’
inclusion of women in party politics had led to the Whigs’ success in many
elections.
C. They created an ideology that
justified the inclusion of women in party politics.
D. They wanted to demonstrate that they
were in support of the woman’s rights movement.
E.
They imitated (效仿)the Whigs’ efforts to include women in the rituals of
party politics. imitate is the word that accuratly describes democrates
keywords: began to make similar appeals to women as well; assimilated
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