Which of the following circumstances contributed to american women publicly voicing ideas similar to those expressed in elizabeth cady stanton's "seneca falls address" during the 19th century? "among the many important questions which have been brought before the public, there is none that more vitally affects the whole human family than that which is technically called woman's rights. every allusion to the degraded and inferior position occupied by women all over the world has been met by scorn and abuse. from the man of highest mental cultivation to the most degraded wretch who staggers in the streets do we meet ridicule, and coarse jests, freely bestowed upon those who dare assert that woman stands by the side of man, his equal, placed here by her god, to enjoy with him the beautiful earth, which is her home as it is his, having the same sense of right and wrong, and looking to the same being for guidance and support. so long has man exercised tyranny over her, injurious to himself and benumbing to her faculties, that few can nerve themselves to meet the storm; and so long has the chain been about her that she knows not there is a remedy." —elizabeth cady stanton, "seneca falls address," 1848 a. leaders from states that allowed women to vote criticized aggressively those states that still opposed women's suffrage b. the second great awakening had given religious legitimacy to preventing women from participating in public life c. many women hoping to promote abolitionism were marginalized by male reformers d. the laws of many states angered white women by insisting that they were inferior to african american men the answer isn't b; i already tried that. it's either a, c, or d.