12. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 12: Sectional Politics and the Rise of the Republican Party

**Quiz for Document 12.4: Lydia Maria Child, Letters to Mrs. S. B. Shaw and Miss Lucy Osgood (1856)**

Quiz for Document 12.4: Lydia Maria Child, Letters to Mrs. S. B. Shaw and Miss Lucy Osgood (1856)

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1. In her letter to Mrs. S. B. Shaw, Lydia Maria Child expresses optimism about which of the following?

Charles Sumner’s ability to recover from his beating at the hands of Preston Brooks

The improvements in national politics that will stem from Mr. A’s departure to Europe

The growing appeal of antislavery sentiment and the Republican Party in the North

The likelihood that women will finally achieve the right to vote in national elections

2. Which of the following matches Lydia Maria Child’s description of herself in these two letters?

A pacifist whose antislavery passions have led her to sometimes wish for civil war

A former Democrat who has come to be a passionate supporter of the Republican Party

An abolitionist who has begun to feel more strongly about women’s rights than slavery

A former supporter of Abraham Lincoln who has come to support the candidacy of John Fremont.

3. According to Child’s letters, the beating of Sumner and the events of Kansas have made her so

ill that she can do nothing but lie in bed and wait for things to get better.

angry that she feels a growing motivation to participate in political activism.

guilty that she wants to martyr herself for the causes of abolitionism and Republicanism.

depressed that she is unable to leave her house to attend meetings or public lectures.

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