Question
This text considers “passages in the sacred oracles which seem to give the advantage to the other sex” to be “wholly metaphorical.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this essay by Judith Sargent Murray arguing that the supposed intellectual inferiority of women was due to a lack of education. This essay’s advocacy of women’s education led to a notion of “Republican motherhood.”
ANSWER: “On the Equality of the Sexes” [accept Essay: “On the Equality of the Sexes”]
[10e] A letter from Murray features in a 2001 biography of this president, who subscribed to Murray’s magazine “The Gleaner.” Despite that, this president dismissed his wife Abigail’s urge to “Remember the Ladies.”
ANSWER: John Adams [prompt on Adams; reject “John Adams Jr.” or “John Quincy Adams”]
[10m] Benjamin Rush promoted Republican motherhood in an address at this city’s “Young Ladies’ Academy.” Anne Parish founded a “Female Society” to help poor victims of this city’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic.
ANSWER: Philadelphia [or Philly]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford A | Johns Hopkins B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn State B | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |