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How did the role of women during World War I affect the suffragist movement?

Many women refused to contribute to the war effort unless they were given the right to vote.

Women served as nurses and ambulance drivers during the war, convincing people to support their right to vote.

Women did not fight in the war, which turned the public against the suffragist movement.

Women took factory jobs in the US during the war, but their work did not impact the suffragist movement.

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Women’s suffrage in Arizona was granted by which reform measure?

an initiative

a recall

a referendum

a direct primary

Which of the following did Emma Hart Willard accomplish in 1826?

She persuaded Oberlin College to admit women.

She persuaded the courts to legalize contraception.

She organized the Seneca Falls Convention.

She founded the first all-girls high school in the US.

What was one way Progressives wanted to protect the rights of children?

by increasing their freedom

by eliminating child labor

by decreasing school hours

by restricting child labor

What was Upton Sinclair’s main purpose in writing The Jungle?

to promote the socialist views that he adopted as an adult

to explain why journalists had an obligation to tell the truth

to arouse public sympathy for slaughterhouse workers

to prompt Congress to pass food-safety laws

Which best describes Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” to achieve national women's suffrage?

to demand a constitutional amendment instead of campaigning for suffrage in individual states

to campaign strongly for women’s suffrage on the state level instead of lobbying Congress to pass a constitutional amendment

to win women’s suffrage in as many states as possible while campaigning Congress to pass a constitutional amendment

to amend the US Constitution to grant women suffrage and then establish it in individual states

Reform elements such as the recall, the referendum, and the initiative were primarily designed to give power to

trusts.

political machines.

voters.

monopolies.

In what year was the Women’s Christian Temperance Union formed?

1859

1870

1874

1910

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