After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Electio

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the first paragraph?

Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen’s rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny. …

• A. The speaker ignores the fact that she did not register to vote.

• B. The speaker suggests that she is guilty.

• C. The speaker is pro-active in voting as a woman because constitutionally all women are U.S. citizens.

• D. The speaker suggests that the state in which she lives has no authority over women’s rights.

Which of the following best explains this excerpt from the speech?

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men. And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government—the ballot. …

• A. The speaker is not sure whether the country is a democracy or a republic.

• B. The speaker believes that the Union was formed to give all people, including women, liberty and freedom

• C. The speaker finds white male citizens laughable.

• D. The speaker believes that the current government should be replaced with a new form of government

Which of these inferences is best supported by this speech?

• A. The speaker has very little knowledge of the law.

• B. The speaker is not liked by fellow women.

• C. States have the right to ignore the U.S. Constitution if their laws only affect women.

• D. A government that denies women the right to vote nurtures women’s inferiority in the home.

Which meaning of ordain most closely matches its meaning in this excerpt from the speech?

“We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

• A. [verb] to invest with priestly authority

• B. [verb] doom

• C. [verb] to establish by law

• D. [verb] to be fated