GWD1-Q

interlove11

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.

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 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 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. 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 that justified such inclusion had been assimilated by the Democrats.
GWD1-Q5:

According to the second paragraph of the passage, Whig propaganda included the assertion that

A.women should enjoy more political rights than they did

B.womenwere 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


The right answer is E, but I really can't understand it.........

flyfairy019

今天看了别人关于此篇文章的分析,可是还是不明白原文中enabled them to mold party-loyal families, reminded men of moral values that transcended party loyalty, and conferred moral standing on the party 怎么推出出答案women’s presence at rallies would enhance the moral standing of the party中的"enhance"的???
麻烦哪位同学解答下,先谢过啦~!

sayysong

我觉得C，D，E对比一下，重点是presence吧 只有这个符合women who turned out at the party’s rallies 。enhance的话它有提升，加强等意思，应该就是指women who turned out at the party’s rallies 后使政治方面的东东有了加强