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Quiz on key dates from women's rights during this period

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Women 1915-40

Women 1915-40

Pregunta 1 de 26

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What did the Fair Labour Standards Act 1938 entail?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • New minimum wage, less working hours, ban on child labour and right of all workers to join a union

  • Gave equal rights as male and female wages were the same

  • Increasing rights for African-American and Mexican Amercian women

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 26

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Which New Deal policy helped women with young families who couldn't work when there was no male head of the household, although it was mostly given to white women and forced the use of a humiliating process for this?Advanced rights for women to be recognised as provider in very limited sense.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Aid to Dependent Children 1935

  • Social Security Act 1935

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 26

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Which act provided welfare benefits for poor families, which benefited married women but was not designed for them?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Social Security Act 1935

  • Fair Labour Standards Act 1938

  • Indian Reorganization Act 1934

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 26

1

African Amercian and Mexican American women still suffered prejudice and discrimination, especially in rural areas despite the New Deal.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 26

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Which act gave political rights, training as domestic workers/seamstresses and promotion of native arts and crafts to Native women?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Indian Reorganization Act 1934

  • 18th Amendment 1917

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 26

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How did the New Deal advance women's rights?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Tended to benefit from action to sort social and economic issues-no policy specifically aimed at them

  • Directly supported childcare for poorer families

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 26

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When was the Women's Organisation for National Prohibition Reform created by Sabin?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1929

  • 1928

  • 1927

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 26

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Which Amendment was passed in 1917?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 18th

  • 19th

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 26

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Which organisation had 150,000 members by 1890?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Women's Organisation for National Prohibition Reform

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 26

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Which President began to support the end of prohibiton in 1932?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Franklin

  • Roosevelt

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 26

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How many women were in industry 1917-18?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1 million

  • 1.5 million

  • 2 million

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 26

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What percentage of Americans were opposed to women wrking in 1936, ignoring poor women who had to work to support their families during the Depression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 82%

  • 87%

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 26

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What do these figures (265,000-800,000) describe?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Female membership of unions trebeling during the Depression

  • Increase in female employment by the end of the 1930s

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 26

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

The Depression led to opportunities for women due to . Women lose jobs, but expected that those still in work would give up their jobs for men-harsh on families with sole breadwinner. By the end of the , women were drifting into employmet du to necessity rather than increased rights.

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Pregunta 15 de 26

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What does this prove about the Prohibition campaign?
Moral arguments from WCTU outweighed those for personal freedom put forward by Molly Pitcher Club in 1922
Emotive image of WCTU
Wide appeal-classwide-WCTU mostly working-class
Act may have passed to attract female vote-19th Amendment about to be passed-had to pay attention to women's issues
Drunkeness linked to crime and ause-letting this continue will fail to protect the home-powerful argument
Removal-temperance would really protect the home as prohibition had failed-emotie in male-dominated politics

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Impact of alliances with other groups for similar goals

  • Power of home protection as justfication for action

  • Significance of women's organisations and leadership

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 26

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What does this prove about the prohibition campaign?
Anti-Saloon League allied with Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1898-combined tactics and campaigns-9 states had prohibition laws by 1913 as a result
ASL and WCTU used propaganda and pressure (lobbying tactics-gaining attention of politicians or peopleof influence to persuade them to back a case) to get amendment ratified 1919
Success of WONPR didn't need much alliancee but still succeeded-argues against
Prohibition may have been caused by nativism, failure of wets and Germn ownership of breweries rather than actios of women's groups

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Impact of alliances with other groups for similar goals

  • SIgnificance of women's organisations and leadership

  • Power of home protection as justification for action

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 26

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What does this prove about the prohibition campaign?
WCTU led by Willard-wider appeal through emotion and uniting purpose
WCTU had 150,000 mmbers by1890-worked for ote so they couldvote for liqour ban
WONPR had 1.5 million members (formed 1929) by 1931
Prohibition would inspire support alone-contentious issue
WONPR-very successful leadership-highly organised
Achieved two amendments-major change to the constitution
Franklin supported end to prohibition 1932-own popularity may have undermined stand-alone success of women's movements
More drank in 1920s than pre-prohibition

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Significance of women's organisations and leadership

  • Impact of alliances with other groups

  • Power of home protection as justification for action

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 26

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When was the 19th Amendment passed?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1920

  • 1919

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 26

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

Boom Years
Consumer goods seen as a luxury in Europe=readily available due to increased
for married women-car, fridge, iron, vacuum cleaner on -impact on home lives-liberated from chores-didn't necessarily mean they spent more time outside the home, could have just spent more time with children
Working class women in workforce went from 22.8% to
Increased demand for secretaries, typists and filing clerks
Opportunities in law and still limited
discrimination-male resentment of female workers-seen as threat to male jobs and wages kept low while women were paid less
had limited impact-North Carolina 1929-strike killed 6 women
1930s-femalemembers of unions-265,000 to 800,000
Women's unions=white-AA and MA=

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 26

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What was established in 1921 by Sanger?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • American Birth Control League

  • Women's Bureau

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 26

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Who was Margaret Sanger?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Led a crusade based on her Catholic mother, who had had 18 pregnancies with 11 live births. Was opposed to abortion due to the risk to the mother's health-raised moneyto develop the Pill in the 1950s-published newspaper articles 1912 on contraceptive advice-birth control clinic (New York 1916) closed by police-30 day imprisonment-established ABCL and 1st legal birth control clinic with backing from John D. Rockefeller

  • Parents were slaves, became a teacher and started a school for African American girls, with 300 students by 1922-opposed Jim Crow laws and supported an end to lynching, voting despite threats from the KKK. Served in Roosevelt administration 1936 as Director of Nero Affairs and acted as vice-President of the NAACP in 1940

  • Was an American role model with 6 children, and actively supported women's/African American rights and political support for husband's New Deal policies-joined League of Women Voters and Women's Trade Union League (1924)-always stuck to principles ie anti-lynching when presidet didn't care

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 26

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What was the Women's Bureau 1920?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Set up by the Department for Labour-wanted to improve working conditions and unfair treatment-resistance from employers and male labour unions

  • Helped to provide welfare benefits for poor families

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 26

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When was the Shepherd-Towner Act passed?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1921

  • 1935

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 26

1

When did the Comstock Laws end?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 1938

  • 1936

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 26

1

Two cultural reforms during this period were the Flappers and the Roaring Twenties.

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 26

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Rellena los espacios en blanco para completar el texto.

World War One
Married women able to legitimately enter workplace- production creating demand fo labour 1917-replacing men at war
New jobs for married women- industry, driving -usually done by men-not as restricted to allowable work ie offices or teaching
Didn't as much as men for same work
Job opportunities for women and AA workers-ammo productio, goods and supplies from 1914
Didn't change accepted role of married women-expected to return when men returned-expected and accepted by majority of women themelves

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