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Question 1

Which of the following is true of the letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband concerning the new Code of Laws for the new republic?
 
  a. She demanded that the right to vote be extended to married women and women owning property.
  b. She used ideas originally developed to combat Parliamentary supremacy to call for consideration of legalrights for women.
 c. She called for legislation that would allow joint ownership of property by married couples.
  d. She used Jefferson's phrase all men are created equal to demand that slavery be abolished in all the states.

Question 2

In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
 
  a. predicted the Terror two years before it occurred.
  b. observed that the French had come to hate their heritage and this led to them to the folly of the Revolution.
  c. stated that when ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated.
  d. claimed that fanaticism armed with abstract ideas divorced from historical experience leads to the evil of revolution.
  e. all of the above



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Reply 2 on: Sep 12, 2019
Excellent


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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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