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All of the following describe responses the woman wage earner during the Great Depression EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Federal law prevented more than one family member from working in the civil service, forcing resignations from women employees. |
| | B) | Three out of four school boards refused to hire married women teachers. |
| | C) | Most respondents to public opinion polls said that wives of employed men should not hold jobs. |
| | D) | The Secretary of Labor denounced women who worked for “pin money.” |
| | E) | The proportion of married women in the labor force declined. |
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During the Great Depression, people experienced all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Migration to cities declined |
| | B) | The marriage rate declined |
| | C) | The birth rate declined |
| | D) | Home industry declined |
| | E) | The divorce rate declined |
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Which of the following best explains the increase of women’s participation in the labor force during the Great Depression? |
| | A) | The FDR administration insisted that women workers enjoy equal access to jobs. |
| | B) | Unemployed women had greater financial need than unemployed men. |
| | C) | Sex segregation in the work force insulated many women workers from the depression’s impact. |
| | D) | Federal law provided equal employment opportunity to women workers. |
| | E) | Women found new jobs as teachers, social workers, and in other professions. |
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) affected women workers in the following way: |
| | A) | The FLSA abolished piece work in all industries. |
| | B) | The FLSA provided maximum hours and minimum wages in selected industries. |
| | C) | The FLSA provided that women receive pay equal to that of men in comparable jobs. |
| | D) | The FLSA improved wages and hours for women in sales work, domestic service, and agricultural work. |
| | E) | By extending benefits for male workers, the FLSA forced women out of blue-collar jobs. |
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The formation of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) in 1937 had the following effect on women workers: |
| | A) | The CIO organized only men who worked in heavy industry such as mining and steel. |
| | B) | The CIO organized many women workers in textile plants and canning plants. |
| | C) | The CIO organized only skilled crafts workers in such industries as printing and construction. |
| | D) | The CIO deprived women workers of the right to organize. |
| | E) | The CIO organized women workers in sales work, domestic service, and agricultural work. |
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the experience of Mexican-American women during the Great Depression? |
| | A) | The U.S. repatriation policy skewed sex ratios among Mexican Americans, which increased Mexican-American women’s problems of self-support. |
| | B) | U.S. encouragement of immigration during the 1930s increased the size of Mexican-American communities. |
| | C) | While job opportunities for most Americans declined in the 1930s, those for Mexican-American women increased. |
| | D) | By the end of the 1930s, Mexican-American men outnumbered Mexican-American women two to one. |
| | E) | The U.S. Women’s Bureau in the 1930s accused Mexican-American women of working for “pin money.” |
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Eleanor Roosevelt contributed to FDR’s administration by doing all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | serving as a member of the president’s cabinet. |
| | B) | traveling widely around the nation and reporting to the president. |
| | C) | maintaining contact with liberal organizations. |
| | D) | testifying before legislative committees. |
| | E) | championing resident work camps for women and urging relief programs for unemployed women. |
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What prominent women in the New Deal led the Women’s Division of the Democratic Party and mobilized women to campaign in the 1936 election? |
| | A) | Frances Perkins |
| | B) | Rose Schneiderman |
| | C) | Molly W. Dewson |
| | D) | Florence Kelley |
| | E) | Katherine Lenroot |
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The Social Security Act of 1933 included all of the following measures EXCEPT: |
| | A) | aid to dependent children. |
| | B) | unemployment compensation. |
| | C) | paid maternity leaves for working women. |
| | D) | old age pensions. |
| | E) | grants to the states for homeless or disabled children. |
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Mary McLeod Bethune, a leading African-American woman in public life in the 1930s, was known for all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | heading the “Negro Affairs” program at the National Youth Administration. |
| | B) | founding a vocational college in Florida |
| | C) | serving as the first woman member of the president’s cabinet. |
| | D) | being a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, who urged her appointment to a New Deal post. |
| | E) | serving as president of the National Council of Negro Women. |
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Change in the women’s work force during World War II included all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | modification or temporary removal of protective laws that restricted night work or overtime. |
| | B) | a rise in the proportion of married women who held jobs. |
| | C) | migration of women to war production centers like Detroit or Seattle. |
| | D) | a rise in the number of women in domestic service jobs. |
| | E) | a doubling of the number of the nation’s women office workers. |
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Efforts to increase the size of the female labor force during World War II included all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | Office of war information campaigns urged women to join the labor force. |
| | B) | Advertisers stressed similarities between industrial work and domestic work. |
| | C) | Business magazines explained to managers the advantages of hiring women workers. |
| | D) | The federal government provided child care services for most women workers. |
| | E) | Employers in defense industries paid relatively high wages to women workers. |
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All of the following statements accurately describe the experience of African-American women during World War II EXCEPT: |
| | A) | African-American women were typically the last line of emergency workers, hired only when other groups of workers were unavailable. |
| | B) | Many African-American women joined a new wave of migration from the rural South to northern cities. |
| | C) | African-American women were among the hardest hit of women workers by loss of wartime jobs in the postwar era. |
| | D) | During the war, the proportion of African-American women workers that held domestic jobs fell and the proportion that held industrial jobs rose.1917. |
| | E) | The end of racial segregation in the military enabled one-fourth of African-American women workers to serve in the armed forces during the war. |
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The War Relocation Authority was the World War II government agency that |
| | A) | transported women workers to war production centers. |
| | B) | sent Japanese-American workers to internment centers. |
| | C) | aided women workers who had held jobs in the defense industry to find new jobs after the war. |
| | D) | cared for the children of mothers who had been hired for defense work. |
| | E) | urged housewives to join the armed forces or take jobs in industry.. |
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Which of the following statements most accurately describes support for an equal rights amendment (ERA) during the Great Depression and World War II? |
| | A) | The ERA remained a subject of dispute between members of the National Woman’s Party and a majority of activist women. |
| | B) | The Women’s Bureau threw its support behind an ERA during World War II. |
| | C) | Eleanor Roosevelt began to support an ERA during the Great Depression. |
| | D) | Congress approved an ERA during World War II. |
| | E) | Trade unions that represented women employees supported an ERA in the 1930s and thereafter. |
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