1. (C) The teachings of religion
2. (B) the antislavery movement
245TOPIC 4.12 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC
KEY TERMS BY THEME
Identities & Conflict (ARC)
free African Americans
The Slave Industry (MIG, WXT)
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
slave codes
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
Questions 1–2 refer to the following excerpt.
“I think that ’twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North,
all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But
what’s all this here talk about?
That man over there says that women need to be helped . . . . Nobody ever
helps me. . .! And ain’t I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head . . . [audience member whispers
“intellect”] . . . What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negro’s rights?
If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be
mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights
as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from?
. . . From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and former slave, speech to a
Women’s Convention in Ohio, 1851
1. Sojourner Truth most clearly rejects criticisms of women that are based
on which of the following?
(A) The ideas of transcendentalism
(B) The principles of the Enlightenment
(C) The teachings of religion
(D) The working status of women
2. Sojourner Truth saw connections between the women’s rights
movement and
(A) the Second Great Awakening
(B) the antislavery movement
(C) the cult of domesticity
(D) the Constitution
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