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All of the following factors shaped family life in the 1950s EXCEPT: |
| | A) | early marriage and a surge in the birth rate |
| | B) | an expanding array of consumer goods |
| | C) | a decline in the size of the middle class |
| | D) | rapid expansion of suburbs |
| | E) | low-interest mortgages, highway construction, and veterans' benefits. |
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In The Feminine Mystique, journalist Betty Friedan presented all of the following points EXCEPT: |
| | A) | described a "problem that has no name" |
| | B) | contended that experts and educators urged women to stay at home |
| | C) | described the home as "a comfortable concentration camp" |
| | D) | urged women to start a new feminist movement |
| | E) | advised women to attain education, get jobs, and find "creative work" |
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the female labor force in the 1950s and 1960s? |
| | A) | The new woman worker was likely to be married, middle-class, and middle-aged. |
| | B) | The female work force shrank in the 1950s and again in the 1960s. |
| | C) | About five percent of mothers of school-age children worked for wages in the 1950s and the 1960s. |
| | D) | After the baby boom peaked in 1957, women's rate of movement into the labor force declined. |
| | E) | The numbers of women in clerical jobs and in school-teaching steadily declined. |
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The President's commission on the Status of Women, formed in 1961, accomplished the following: |
| | A) | proposed an equal rights amendment to Congress |
| | B) | supported ratification of an equal rights amendment |
| | C) | urged daycare programs, tax deductions for child-care expenses, and paid maternal leaves |
| | D) | advocated abortion law reform |
| | E) | declared that men and women would share responsibility for child-care, housework, and family support |
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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 can be most accurately described as |
| | A) | an extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act to domestic workers and farm workers. |
| | B) | the first federal law against sex discrimination. |
| | C) | an impetus to the establishment of state commissions on the status of women. |
| | D) | a source of funding for paid maternity leaves for women workers. |
| | E) | an injunction to employers to use "affirmative action" when hiring new workers. |
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The Supreme Court decisions of Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) involved |
| | A) | the right to contraception. |
| | B) | equal pay for comparable work. |
| | C) | tax deductions for child-care expenses. |
| | D) | access to legal abortion. |
| | E) | equal opportunity in job placement. |
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The use of the mechanical cotton-picker had the following impact on African-American women by mid-century: |
| | A) | increased the number of women employed in agriculture |
| | B) | caused reverse migration from the cities to rural areas |
| | C) | provided opportunities for African-American women in industry |
| | D) | reduced the proportion of married African-American women in the labor force |
| | E) | reduced the scope of sharecropping and increased migration to cities |
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A former sharecropper who lost her job when she tried to vote and who later became an official in SNCC and helped from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was |
| | A) | Fannie Lou Hamer. |
| | B) | Rosa Parks. |
| | C) | Daisy Bates. |
| | D) | Ella Baker. |
| | E) | Pauli Murray. |
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did the following: |
| | A) | declared segregation of schools by race unconstitutional |
| | B) | protected the voting rights of African Americans |
| | C) | prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex |
| | D) | established criteria for school integration |
| | E) | outlawed segregation in public accommodations |
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The National Organization for Women (NOW), formed in 1966, was distinguished by all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | opposition to all policies that fostered in women self-denigration or dependence |
| | B) | a demand for "a fully equal partnership of the sexes" |
| | C) | a demand for a national network of day-care centers |
| | D) | a denial that men and women had different roles and responsibilities in society |
| | E) | an informal, free-floating organization with no offices or dues |
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The "Freedom Summers" of 1964 and 1965 refer most specifically to |
| | A) | women's liberation campaigns on college campuses. |
| | B) | school integration struggles in southern cities. |
| | C) | meetings of activist women in Washington, D.C. |
| | D) | northern civil rights' volunteers' campaigns for voter registration in the South. |
| | E) | civil rights protests in northern cities. |
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The agenda of NOW around 1970 included all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | a national child-care system. |
| | B) | repeal of laws against abortion. |
| | C) | an equal rights amendment. |
| | D) | equal opportunity legislation. |
| | E) | extension of protective labor laws. |
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All of the following statements accurately describe the progress of the equal rights amendment (ERA) EXCEPT: |
| | A) | In 1969, the Women's Bureau began to support the ERA. |
| | B) | In 1972, both houses of Congress approved an ERA by large majorities. |
| | C) | The ERA proposed by Congress would preclude sex discrimination on the part of the federal government, its agencies, and officers. |
| | D) | By 1972, many states had enacted their own equal rights provisions. |
| | E) | By 1974, the states ratified the ERA. |
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The Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 did the following: |
| | A) | invalidated a state antiabortion law |
| | B) | upset a state birth control law |
| | C) | upheld a state's right-to-life law |
| | D) | upheld a state's anti-pornography law |
| | E) | invalidated a federal antiabortion law |
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All of the following events of the early 1970s validated the goals of the feminist movement EXCEPT: |
| | A) | During the 1970s, most formerly all-male colleges welcomed women students. |
| | B) | In 1972, President Nixon vetoed the Comprehensive Child Development bill. |
| | C) | By 1974, 500 colleges offered an array of women's studies courses. |
| | D) | During the 1970s, the U.S. military academies welcomed women students. |
| | E) | During the 1970s, the proportion of professions made up of women steadily increased. |
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