USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

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Why does Sojourner say “that man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages”?

(A) She is making fun of that man

(B) ** She is bringing up the opposing argument

(C) She is trying to intimidate him

(D) She doesn’t really know what he thinks

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -What is the meaning behind Sojourner’s claim that “if woman have a pint and man a quart-why can’t she have her little pint full”? By giving a woman a pint and a man a quart, the woman is unable to take more than the pint will hold. A woman will have only as many rights as you give her.

Concept note-2: -Sojourner’s experience as a mother played a significant part in her argument for women’s rights. Her claim that femininity gave her no special privileges gained momentum as she recounted that even the natural female right to mother her children had been stolen away.

Concept note-3: -The “Ain’t I a Woman?” march was designed as a response to the overwhelming whiteness of the Women’s March and a way to include more black women in the women’s rights movement. Regardless of the exact words Truth used, it’s clear that she helped lay the foundation for the advocation of truly equal rights and power.