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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the cult of domesticity,

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a secret society of real housewives.

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All right, well, first up, the excerpt.

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All right, and now, the question:

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Based on the argument in the excerpt, many abolitionists

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would have been likely to support... what?

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And here are your potential answers.

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All right. The idea that "taxation

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and representation should be inseparable"

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played a large role in America's foundation, and abolitionists

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fought hard and long to ensure that same right was

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extended to African Americans.

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So let's see what other causes these freedom fighters would've

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loved to celebrate.

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Based on the argument in the excerpt, would abolitionists have

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been likely to support A - the Louisiana Purchase?

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Hmm. Well, the excerpt doesn't really have anything

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to do with the Louisiana Purchase.

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Same goes for the upper class cult of domesticity,

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which was a focus on the value of female work at home

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with her family. That gets rid of A and D. Cross them out.

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Would abolitionists have supported C - the movement

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for African-Americans returning to Africa?

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Well, some abolitionists did support sending African Americans

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back to Africa, but it wasn't exactly a strict

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feature of the movement. So get rid of C.

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Which means many abolitionists would have been likely to support

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B - the women's suffrage movement.

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Abolitionists who supported full citizenship for African Americans

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would have likely supported the same for women,

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since they, too, were members of society who had a right to

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participate in government. So B is the right answer.

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The abolitionist movement really planted the seeds

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for universal suffrage

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and with a little bit of water and 80 years of hard work,

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rights for women finally started to blossom.

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