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What do suffrage, temperance, and abolition movements have in common?

A
They all achieved their desired goals.
B
They all provided a social outlet for women.
C
They were all efforts to promote social reform.
D
They were all attempts to rid society of political injustice.
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In what way did the Declaration of Sentiments express support for women?

A
It stated that men and women are equal.
B
It asked for equal pay for men and women.
C
It endorsed overall safety in the home for women.
D
It demanded women be appointed to jobs in government.
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Which scenario is illegal under the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

A
paying a woman less than a man when both perform the same job
B
asking a woman to wear more formal clothes in the workplace
C
refusing to provide women with separate restrooms in the workplace
D
choosing to promote a man before a woman when both are equally qualified
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In what way did Carrie Chapman Catt contribute to social reform in this era?

A
She wrote the Women’s Suffrage Amendment.
B
She founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.
C
She developed a new strategy to pursue women’s voting rights.
D
She carried out extreme tactics to bring attention to women’s voting rights.
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How did the Declaration of Sentiments impact reform in the mid-19th century?

A
Issues identified in the document became important to men.
B
Its claim that women were equal to men led women to seek voting rights.
C
Its claim of women's equality was largely supported by society.
D
Issues identified in the document were addressed by the government.
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Which identifies the main reason women suffragists were interested in participating in the abolition movement?

A
They believed ending slavery would lead to equality for women.
B
They believed ending slavery would interest more people in suffrage movements.
C
They believed slavery was polarizing the northern and southern regions of the nation.
D
They believed slavery denied both men and women the freedoms and rights they were fighting for.
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Which of the following best describes one reason that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed?

A
to start a “back to Africa” movement
B
to make slavery illegal in the United States
C
to stop violence against African Americans
D
to form an African American political party
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Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

A
poll taxes
B
first-class railroad tickets
C
racially segregated hospitals
D
racially segregated schools
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Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted

A
in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
B
in the South starting in the early 1800s
C
nationwide starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
D
nationwide starting in the early 1800s.
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Who called for a revival of the abolitionist spirit when he joined the Niagara Movement?

A
Homer Plessy
B
Booker T. Washington
C
Marcus Garvey
D
William English Walling
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What was the main idea discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention?

A
Women should be given the right to engage in any reform movement.
B
Women should be given equal rights, and those rights needed to be recognized.
C
Women should be allowed to access education at the same institutions as men.
D
Women should be allowed to stay home raising families, and men should recognize this work.
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Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually

A
failed due to lack of public support.
B
scaled back despite heavy financing.
C
failed due to its support for segregation.
D
grew from a small school into a university.
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How did women of the mid-19th century begin to establish more of a role in public society?

A
They ran for important political offices.
B
They became involved in reform movements.
C
They tried to take political power away from men.
D
They taught their daughters to work in jobs traditionally done by men.
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How did the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) differ from the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)?

A
The NWSA had goals that expanded to include the rights of men as well as women.
B
The NWSA did not want to place the focus of voting rights on any group other than women.
C
The NWSA wanted to address the voting rights of both women and formerly enslaved people.
D
The NWSA believed in using mostly aggressive tactics when trying to get the attention of lawmakers.
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Why did Alice Paul leave the National American Woman Suffrage Association?

A
She believed in more aggressive tactics for achieving voting rights.
B
She was in constant conflict within the group over how to gain members.
C
She had political ambitions and wanted to serve as the organization’s president.
D
She wanted to start a new organization focused on religious preaching to achieve voting rights.
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech."In the great leap from slavery to freedom...the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands...we shall prosper...as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor."According to this quotation, Washington believed that

A
hard work had its own kind of dignity.
B
hard work was more important than education.
C
people could not prosper from common labor.
D
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
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Which rights did women become more active in pursuing after achieving the right to vote? Select four options.

A
equal pay
B
equal treatment
C
access to credit
D
military enlistment
E
access to higher education

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