Chapter 14

Quiz for Document 14-4: Charles Francis Adams Jr., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)

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Question 1

In his 1869 article, “The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections,” Charles Francis Adams Jr. argues against the adoption of universal suffrage and suggests that, although the “white female ... is at least of the same blood and education as the white male,” woman suffrage is a danger to free American institutions. What, according to Adams, made white women unsuitable voters?

Question 2

Which “racial” group had already, according to Adams, corrupted the political system of New York by gaining enfranchisement and political position?

Question 3

Adams’s “Liberal Republican” theories of social organization, voter qualification, and cultural hierarchy most represent the historical legacy of the