Question 1

What major class of women was unaffected,practically or legally,by the Nineteenth Amendment?

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A)   Married women
B)   Puerto Rican and Filipino women
C)   Women who had not graduated from high school
D)   Naturalized citizens

Question 2

What was a central principle of "maternalism," a term coined by recent historians to refer to the Progressive-era justification for women's programs?

Accepted Answer

A)   Motherhood should exist in a private sphere, separate from both men and politics.
B)   Motherhood was a job unto itself, and mothers should be represented by a union.
C)   Working-class women lacked the proper financial resources to be mothers.
D)   Society needed to protect motherhood for the good of the nation. D

Question 3

Jane Addams became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for

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A)   helping negotiate an end to World War I.
B)   playing a vital role in the woman suffrage movement.
C)   the class harmony she achieved through her settlement house movement.
D)   her role in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. D

Question 4

By supporting "free unions," young feminists demonstrated that

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A)   unions could operate without charging dues.
B)   communal apartments would ease women's domestic labor.
C)   men and women could live and love together in mutual passion.
D)   women's emotional health depended on sexual gratification.

Question 5

What did Zitkala-Ša advocate during the Progressive era?

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A)   The opportunity for talented Indian youth to attend white colleges and universities
B)   The establishment of more Indian schools like the Carlisle Indian School
C)   Creating industrial workshops on reservations so Indians could become self-sufficient
D)   The preservation of Native American traditions and the securing of full citizenship

Question 6

What did African American women hope to gain from suffrage?

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A)   Higher wages and better working conditions in factories
B)   Greater control over their bodies
C)   Passage of an anti-lynching law
D)   Countering the disenfranchisement of African American men

Question 7

After the United States entered World War I,Ida B.Wells-Barnett was threatened with jail because she

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A)   published antilynching articles despite censorship laws.
B)   defended black soldiers executed by the U.S. government.
C)   promoted the Woman's Peace Party.
D)   challenged the government's right to draft young men.

Question 8

What was Americanization work??

Accepted Answer

A)   Supporting bond drives to raise funds for the war
B)   Organizing American women to work in the defense industry
C)   Teaching English language, home, and health classes to immigrants
D)   Volunteering for the American Red Cross

Question 9

What did the disparity in average working men's and women's wages reflect in 1900?

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A)   Most working-class women were married and only worked part time.
B)   Men had the most skilled jobs.
C)   Racist attitudes toward African American female factory workers led to depressed wages for other white women as well.
D)   Most women earned more money than men.

Question 10

How did a new generation of suffrage leaders try to bring the suffrage movement into conformity with the realities of urban,industrial,modern America in the early 1900s?

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A)   They rejected soliciting the help of wealthy women, who they felt supported the conservative views of their husbands.
B)   They sought the support of the liquor industry, which had been staunchly opposed to woman suffrage.
C)   They rejected the outdated term "woman suffrage" for the more modern term, "votes for women."
D)   They placed all their focus on lobbying state legislatures to win the vote at the state level.

Question 11

How did the move toward professionalization affect African American women?

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A)   It led to increased integration with middle-class white women in graduate school and the workplace.
B)   Because of Jim Crow laws, African American women had the opportunity to organize and manage their own professional organizations.
C)   For the first time, many African American professional women participated in training programs with white women.
D)   African American professions challenged family harmony because African American men were excluded from the professions.

Question 12

The goal of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was to link women workers with

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A)   their employers.
B)   Progressive reformers.
C)   the Socialist political agenda.
D)   the organized labor movement.

Question 13

The predominately new female profession of social work evolved from

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A)   universities' marketing campaign to raise enrollments of women.
B)   the desire of settlement house volunteers to apply new social science methods to benevolent work.
C)   new requirements in charities that women workers be professionally trained.
D)   the chronic sexism that denied women admission to medical schools. B

Question 14

The main characteristic of the Progressive era,the period from the late 1890s through World War I,was

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A)   decreased government regulation.
B)   intense reform activism.
C)   race and class harmony.
D)   public distrust of federal leadership.

Question 15

What ground-breaking step was taken by the National Woman's Party as they tried to push for woman suffrage?

Accepted Answer

A)   Urging that women shut down war industries
B)   Calling for the impeachment of antisuffrage officials
C)   Admitting African American women members
D)   Picketing the White House

Question 16

What was significant for women reformers about the 1912 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)   The Democrats had a female vice presidential candidate.
B)   The Progressives abandoned their earlier support of woman suffrage.
C)   Two of the three political parties supported woman suffrage.
D)   Women voters outnumbered men for the first time in history.

Question 17

When the power of the maternalist argument fell short,what issue did reformers have difficulty with?

Accepted Answer

A)   Ending child labor
B)   Affordable housing for female-headed families
C)   Reliable garbage pickup
D)   Banning night work for women workers

Question 18

What feminist goal did Charlotte Perkins Gilman advocate?

Accepted Answer

A)   Easy access to birth control information and materials
B)   Collective housework to ease women's domestic burden
C)   Adoption of a pacifist ideology
D)   The end to unequal pay for women

Question 19

What is notable about the Progressive Party's position regarding women?

Accepted Answer

A)   Women were among the party's chief financial backers.
B)   Women were among the party's founders.
C)   It fully integrated women into all its activities.
D)   Despite promoting reform, it refused to endorse woman suffrage.

Question 20

In terms of diversity,what was the greatest achievement of the twentieth-century woman suffrage movement?

Accepted Answer

A)   Its commitment to end racial segregation
B)   The development of an extremely broad class base
C)   The ability to win both state and federal support
D)   Its role in introducing coeducation into American universities

Exam 8: Power and politics: women in the Progressive Era

What major class of women was unaffected,practically or legally,by the Nineteenth Amendment?

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What was a central principle of "maternalism," a term coined by recent historians to refer to the Progressive-era justification for women's programs?

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Jane Addams became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for

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By supporting "free unions," young feminists demonstrated that

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What did Zitkala-Ša advocate during the Progressive era?

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What did African American women hope to gain from suffrage?

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After the United States entered World War I,Ida B.Wells-Barnett was threatened with jail because she

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What was Americanization work??

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What did the disparity in average working men's and women's wages reflect in 1900?

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How did a new generation of suffrage leaders try to bring the suffrage movement into conformity with the realities of urban,industrial,modern America in the early 1900s?

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How did the move toward professionalization affect African American women?

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The goal of the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) was to link women workers with

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The predominately new female profession of social work evolved from

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The main characteristic of the Progressive era,the period from the late 1890s through World War I,was

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What ground-breaking step was taken by the National Woman's Party as they tried to push for woman suffrage?

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What was significant for women reformers about the 1912 presidential election?

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When the power of the maternalist argument fell short,what issue did reformers have difficulty with?

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What feminist goal did Charlotte Perkins Gilman advocate?

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What is notable about the Progressive Party's position regarding women?

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In terms of diversity,what was the greatest achievement of the twentieth-century woman suffrage movement?

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