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gracezhong78

The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil

       War) political history and women’s his-

       tory use separate sources and focus

Line       on separate issues.  Political histori-

  (5)      ans, 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

 (10)      voters nor politicians, they receive little

discussion.  Women’s historians, mean-

while, have shown little interest in the

subject of party politics, instead draw-

ing on personal papers, legal  records

 (15)      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.

 (20)            However, most historians have

underestimated the extent and signifi-

cance of women’s political allegiance

in the antebellum period.  For example,

       in the presidential election campaigns

 (25)      of the 1840’s, the Virginia Whig party

strove to win the allegiance of Virginia’s

women by inviting them to rallies and

speeches.  According to Whig propa-

ganda, women who turned out at the

 (30)      party’s rallies gathered information

that enabled them to mold party-loyal

families, reminded men of moral values

       that transcended party loyalty, and con-

ferred moral standing on the party.

 (35)      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 common-

 (40)      place, and the ideology that justified

such inclusion had been assimilated

by the Democrats.

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Q3:
                    

The author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements regarding most historians of the antebellum period?

             

1. They have failed to adequately contrast the differing roles that women played in the Democratic and Whig parties in the 1850’s.
2. They have failed to see that political propaganda advocating women’s political involvement did not reflect the reality of women’s actual roles.
3. They have incorrectly assumed that women’s party loyalty played a small role in Whig and Democratic party politics.
4. They have misinterpreted descriptions of women’s involvement in party politics in records of female associations and women’s personal papers.
5. They have overlooked the role that women’s political activities played in the woman’s rights movement.

答案是C.我选的是A..C中的assume从何而来？欢迎讨论！

gracezhong78

顶一下！

yancychiang

仔细领会L20-L34的意思，有种反说的味道

天冥翼

楼上的讲得对~

lz为何要选A呢，文章提到1850's只是表达“直到在那个时候妇女的参政才被广泛认可”这一思想，C更贴近作者的思路