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Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Answers

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What is the chief claim of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

A
Black people deserve equal treatment and status in the United States.
B
Slavery is unconstitutional, and it should be abolished.
C
Black people are deserving of more respect.
D
The tradition of slavery in the United States has harmed the Black population.
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Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.How does the repetition of the word “must” affect the tone of the piece?

A
The repetition shows that the speaker is concerned about something.
B
The repetition draws attention to the speaker’s anger.
C
The repetition suggests that the speaker is intimidating and demanding.
D
The repetition intensifies the speaker’s sense of urgency.
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Which excerpt is a counterclaim in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

A
What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded.
B
There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.
C
It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write.
D
What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?
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Read the excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.What is the effect of the repetition of “your”?

A
It reminds the reader of the speaker’s identity.
B
It reinforces the speaker’s feeling of separation.
C
It suggests a dialogue between speaker and audience.
D
It indicates that the speaker is addressing a large crowd.

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