Question

Read the quotation from abigail adams. it is from a letter she wrote her husband, john adams, as he helped draft the us constitution.
"if perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the laidies we are determined to foment a rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."

which excerpt from "ain't i a woman?" best supports adams’s view?

A.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?B.Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?C.If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.D.Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well!

Answer 1

This speech, delivered by the mother of 13 during 1863, is a masterpiece of rhetoric, which is likely why you are studying it.

A]

This is a "so there" kind of answer. This lady had no education, but she understood what slavery meant. It is a great put down.

B]

She's declaring that she may not be a lady, but she is a woman and she deserves respect. It's a great statement, but not the answer.

C]

This primarily what Adams was saying in much different words. If power is not given to women, they have ways of exacting what they want, and they will take that power given or not. C is likely your answer.

D]

Again this is another statement like B. It is admirable and Adams has said nothing about the daily life of a wife and mother. Adams is talking about a sort of civil disobedience. So really is Sojourner Truth.

E]

Same answer as the first part of D (isn't D in two parts).