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A major goal of the League of Women Voters, formed in 1920, was to |
| | A) | attain woman suffrage. |
| | B) | amend the Constitution. |
| | C) | educate the electorate. |
| | D) | erase sex as a legal classification. |
| | E) | merge with the National Woman's Party |
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The National Woman's Party accomplished the following in the 1920s: |
| | A) | proposed an ERA to Congress |
| | B) | convinced both houses of Congress to approve an ERA |
| | C) | campaigned for the ratification of an ERA |
| | D) | secured the ratification of an ERA |
| | E) | revised 1000 state laws that discriminated against women |
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In Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923), the United States Supreme Court |
| | A) | declared a federal minimum wage law unconstitutional. |
| | B) | upheld a congressional ban on child labor. |
| | C) | states that women could serve on juries. |
| | D) | declared federal funding for health care unconstitutional. |
| | E) | upheld protective laws for women workers. |
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The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 did the following: |
| | A) | set minimum wage and maximum hours laws for women workers |
| | B) | provided states with matching funds for health care centers |
| | C) | approved an equal rights amendment |
| | D) | curbed the hours that children could work |
| | E) | enabled women to serve on the national committees of political parties |
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All of the following describe women's activities in World War I EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Women served overseas when American troops went to Europe. |
| | B) | Women enlisted in the United States Navy and Marine Corps. |
| | C) | Civilian women workers found jobs in hospitals and in industry. |
| | D) | Civilian women workers took jobs as streetcar conductors. |
| | E) | Most women who held war-related jobs retained them through the 1920s. |
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A factor that affected women in the work force during the 1920s was |
| | A) | expansion of blue-collar jobs in industry and manufacturing. |
| | B) | increase in the number of woman physicians. |
| | C) | exclusion of women from graduate and professional schools. |
| | D) | expansion of jobs for white-collar workers such as typists and saleswomen. |
| | E) | contraction of job opportunities in teaching and social work. |
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Author and researcher Zora Neale Hurston is most closely associated with the following academic endeavor in the 1920s: |
| | A) | ethnological work among the Dakota Sioux |
| | B) | ethnological work among African Americans in Florida |
| | C) | field work outside North America |
| | D) | graduate studies in English and psychology |
| | E) | achievement of tenure at a major university |
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Which of the following most accurately describes a political activity of members of the National Association of Colored Women in the 1920s? |
| | A) | campaigned for Republican candidates |
| | B) | campaigned for Democratic candidates |
| | C) | became members of the National Woman's Party |
| | D) | became members of the League of Women Voters |
| | E) | avoided voting |
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Which of the following most accurately describes a facet of Mexican migration to the United States in the 1920s? |
| | A) | Women outnumbered men among Mexican migrants to the United States. |
| | B) | Heavy migration from Mexico increased the Mexican-born populations of southwestern cities. |
| | C) | Prosperity in Mexico cut back migration in the United States. |
| | D) | Most Mexican migrants settled in the Northwest. |
| | E) | As United States demand for labor declined, most Mexican families residing in the U.S. returned to Mexico. |
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A pioneer survey of sexual attitudes and practices of American women, published in 1929, was written by |
| | A) | Margaret Mead. |
| | B) | Ruth Benedict. |
| | C) | Beatrice Fairfax. |
| | D) | Katherine Bement Davis. |
| | E) | Dorothea Dix. |
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Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver was best known in the 1920s for which of the following? |
| | A) | a denunciation of birth control in the Birth Control Review |
| | B) | a sociological study of "Middletown," a midwestern city |
| | C) | a popular syndicated column on manners that appeared in many newspapers |
| | D) | a book on trends among young people, Revolt of Modern Youth |
| | E) | a popular novel on collegiate youth |
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Which of the following most accurately describes the custom of "dating" in the 1920s? |
| | A) | Young people abandoned the custom of dating for the new vogue of "going steady." |
| | B) | Dating insured that courtship took place in the home. |
| | C) | Dating replaced the system of "calling." |
| | D) | "Calling" replaced the system of dating. |
| | E) | Dating only took place in the movies. |
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Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger publicized the birth control cause through all of the following publications EXCEPT: |
| | A) | the Woman Rebel, a publication in 1914. |
| | B) | a pamphlet called "Family Limitation" in 1915 |
| | C) | a novel called Flaming Youth in 1923. |
| | D) | a journal called the Birth Control Review, started in 1917. |
| | E) | Women and the New Race, a book of 1923. |
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Which of the following most accurately describes a facet of the birth control campaign in the 1920s? |
| | A) | The American Birth Control League campaigned for "Doctors Only" bills. |
| | B) | The federal government closed down all birth control clinics. |
| | C) | The National Woman's Party adopted birth control as a goal. |
| | D) | The voluntary Parenthood League denounced birth control. |
| | E) | The birth control campaign succeeded in repealing obscenity law. |
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Which of the following actions by a branch of government opened the mails to information about contraception? |
| | A) | a congressional law of 1873 |
| | B) | the decision in Margaret Sanger's trial of 1916 |
| | C) | a New York State Court of Appeals ruling in 1918 |
| | D) | the Sheppard Towner Act of 1921 |
| | E) | a federal court decision of 1930 |
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