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Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the emergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth-century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured because, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement一utopian socialism一 which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that culminated in the first women's rights conference held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.

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According to the passage, which of the following is true of the Seneca Falls conference on women's rights?

  • A It was primarily a product of nineteenth-century Saint-Simonian feminist thought.
  • B It was the work of American activists who were independent of feminists abroad.
  • C It was the culminating achievement of the utopian socialist movement.
  • D It was a manifestation of an international movement for social change and feminism.
  • E It was the final manifestation of the women's rights movement in the United States in the nineteenth century.

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