The fields of antebellum (pre-Civil War) political history and women’s history
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, meanwhile, have shown little interest in the
subject of party politics, instead drawing 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 significance of women’s political allegiance
in the antebellum period. For example, in the presidential election campaigns
15 (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 propaganda,
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 conferred 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.

Q2:
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
D. discuss the ideologies of opposing antebellum political parties
E. contrast the methodologies in two differing fields of historical inquiry

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

Q4:
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

i had C,E,E

I believe the OA on this are: C C E