1. One historian has argued that to portray Nathan Appleton " as a bloated capitalist grinding his heel into the necks and downtrodden workers would be the grossest caricature." Do you agree? how would you characterize him?
2. Sarah Bagley's activites as an antebellum labor leader have only recently begun to be fully appreciated, prompting one historian to predict that eventually she " will be seen as one of the true heroines of her time." Do you agree? should she be studied for that reason or others?
3.What do the lives and careers of Beecher and Cady stanton reveal about the limits imposed on womein in early-nineteenth-century america? why was Cady Stanton considered so radical? why was Beecher more successful in getting her ideas accepted?
4.Some historians have argued that early nineteeth-century reformers were motion vated by the desire to impose order on society. Others take the opposite view , suggesting that they were iinterested in liberating individuals from old institution, ideas and practices .what do the ideas of Beecher and Cady stanton reveal about these interpretations?