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 significance

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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Q4:

The primary purpose of the passage as a whole is to

1. examine the tactics of antebellum political parties with regard to women
2. trace the effect of politics on the emergence of the woman’s rights movement
3. point out a deficiency in the study of a particular historical period
4. discuss the ideologies of opposing antebellum political parties
5. contrast the methodologies in two differing fields (P.h. and W.H.) of historical inquiry

请大家讨论一下，选C还是选E，个人觉得C说的是二段内容，而E说的是一段内容。哪一个更确切一些？

选C。

看中心句，第二段开头：However, most historians have underestimated the extent and significance of women’s political allegiance in the antebellum period.

E不对。E对应第一段。第一段的内容只是个垫场，不是中心，后面马上就however了。而且E说的也太宽泛了，第一段也只是讲了他们在研究某一个问题上方法角度的不同。

谢谢,个人也倾向于选C，不过看到几个讨论稿的答案是E。第一段只是陈述，第二段才量出观点。

问一下同文的6题

Q6:

According to the passage, which of the following was true of Virginia Democrats in the mid-1850’s?

They feared that their party was losing its strong moral foundation.
They believed that the Whigs’ inclusion of women in party politics had led to the Whigs’ success in many elections.
They created an ideology that justified the inclusion of women in party politics.
They wanted to demonstrate that they were in support of the woman’s rights movement.
They imitated the Whigs’ efforts to include women in the rituals of party politics.
C和E两个选项，为什么C不对啊？？C更符合时间1850 啊？？？请指点