Read the following excerpt from a speech by Benjamin Rush, a prominent Philadelphia physician and reformer, delivered in 1787:
'The equal share that every citizen has in the liberty, and the possible share he may have in the government of our country, make it necessary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree, by a peculiar and suitable education, to concur in instructing their sons in the principles of liberty and government.'
The argument in the excerpt was most directly used to support which of the following ideas during the late eighteenth century?
- Women should be educated so they could raise virtuous, civic-minded male citizens.Cevap
- BThe new federal government should adopt loose constructionist policies to expand its authority.
- CThe Articles of Confederation should be replaced with a stronger constitution that could levy direct taxes.
- DParliamentary taxation policies like the Stamp Act violated the traditional rights of British subjects.
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The correct answer states that women should be educated so they could raise virtuous, civic-minded male citizens.
The excerpt from Benjamin Rush's 1787 address is a classic statement supporting 'Republican Motherhood.' This ideology argued that women played a vital role in the new republic by training their sons to be virtuous, active citizens. To do this effectively, women themselves required education in the principles of liberty and civic responsibility.
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Republican Motherhood