Look at the photograph and read the caption.Caption: This is a Columbia Model 51 Ladies' Chainless bicycle from 1898.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change.Since early in the century, women's clothing seemed to be designed more for beauty and style than for comfort and practicality. One undergarment in particular, the corset, made the very act of getting dressed a challenge.
Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .Driven by a desire for comfort and physical well-being, several groups of women introduced alternative approaches to fashion in the 1850s. Most combined a dress shortened to about four or five inches below the knee with some sort of baggy pantaloons worn underneath.
Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .In 1881, as women in the United States continued to struggle with hoops and corsets and other fashion architecture, their counterparts in England formed the Rational Dress Society. This society called for more reasonable clothing solutions, including limiting the weight of a woman's undergarments to seven pounds.
In Chapter 1 of Wheels of Change, the improvement of the nation’s roads is best characterized as a
Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .Bloomers did gain some converts in the 1850s, but the backlash was so strong that Amelia Bloomer and her colleagues gave up the fight. Some like-minded women formed the Dress Reform Association in 1857, aiming to win women the right to decide what they would and would not wear. However, the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 stalled their efforts.
Look at the Pope Manufacturing Co. advertisement.

Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .Repeated injuries to women riding in long, full skirts propelled female cyclists to look for new clothing options and others to at least consider the need for them. But for every suggestion of a cycling outfit that was comfortable and safe, there seemed to be a corresponding warning to women not to overstep their bounds.Which statement best fits in the "Cause” portion of this chart?

Read the excerpt from the introduction to Wheels of Change .When I was a kid, I took great pleasure in jumping on my bike and riding to the corner candy store about half a mile away. Although I had no knowledge of the part the bicycle had played as a vehicle of change for turn-of-the-20th-century women, I was acutely aware that it allowed this 1960s girl a unique measure of independence. On my bike, I could break free of the bonds that held me in my neighborhood to go buy Necco Wafers and candy necklaces and Atomic FireBalls. If I felt particularly adventurous, I could even ride a bit farther for a fresh ice-cream cone at Applegate Farm.
Read the excerpt from Chapter 3 of Wheels of Change .That same year, the very concept of bloomers caused the Board of School Trustees in the village of College Point, New York, to take an unusual vote. It seems that three female teachers in the village school system made a practice of riding their bicycles to work, and the trustees were aghast. So they voted to prohibit female teachers from riding to and from school.Which statement best fits in the "Cause” portion of this chart?

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