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Question 1

Which of the following is considered to have launched the women's rights movement?
 
  a. The Seneca Falls' Declaration of Sentiments
  b. The publication of the Grimk sisters' books in 1838
  c. The merger of the abolitionist and feminist movements in 1839
  d. The emergence of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as national figures in the 1840s

Question 2

The shift in mentality in the late nineteenth century may be described as a/an
 
  a. intensification of positivism that made even the subconscious subject to rational analysis.
  b. return to pragmatism: only those theories that show evident practicality were accepted.
  c. movement away from the Enlightenment and a discovery of non-romantic irrationalism.
  d. modern skepticism: knowledge is impossible, and therefore, the search for knowledge should be abandoned.
  e. new attempt to synthesize reason and faith, which is science and religion.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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