"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress... The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895
The cartoon contrasts Washington's accommodation with other late-nineteenth-century reform currents. Which pairing of movements does it most accurately depict?
- A
The abolitionist movement and the women's suffrage convention at Seneca Falls
- B
The Knights of Labor and the Second Bank of the United States
- C
Free Soil agitation and the Free Silver coalition
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The WCTU's temperance crusade and nativist support for Chinese exclusion
Explanation
Frances Willard's WCTU (founded 1874) and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) were both products of the Gilded Age reform-and-restriction climate. Seneca Falls (1848) and the Second Bank (pre-1836) belong to earlier eras.