The ideal of republican motherhood that emerged from the American Revolution held that
a. women should be rewarded politically for having helped establish the American republic
b. women had a special responsibility to cultivate the civic virtues of republicanism in their children.
c. the government should establish social services to help mothers raise their children.
d. mothers should be granted full political and economic rights in the American republic.
e. mothers had a responsibility to teach principles of equality to their daughters as well as sons.
Answer: B