The chart Women and Work, 1900–2000 implies that the steady increase of women in the workforce after 1970 was due largely to __________
A) the resolution of racial and ethnic prejudice and rising divorce rates
B) affordable day care services and comparable salaries to working men
C) changing attitudes about married women in the workforce and declining birthrates
D) the development of new appliances and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
C
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Which of the following was a factor in the emergence of the student protest movement at the Berkeley campus of the University of California in the fall of 1964?
A. The university's ban on political activity at the students' traditional gathering place B. A sharp increase in tuition C. The mediocre quality of many academic programs D. The willingness of campus administrators to give draft officials access to student records
A Vietnamese press developed in Saigon, because
a. French colonial authorities were terribly oppressive. b. French colonial law encouraged the freedom of the press. c. Vietnamese nationalists pretended to be loyal colonial subjects. d. Vietnamese nationalists had obtained university educations in France.
The National Congress of British West Africa
A) was attacked and destroyed in 1922 by police in Kenya. B) advocated radical and violent change to the colonial system. C) favored using constitutional methods to achieve gradual change. D) spread throughout Africa. E) had the first elected African to the Chamber of Deputies.
In 1792, James Madison wrote that in "every political society, parties are unavoidable." How does the crisis that followed the application of Missouri for statehood relate to this statement?
A) It shows that Madison understood that the institution of slavery would be at the core of the nation's greatest conflict. B) It proves the statement false, because a compromise was easily worked out. C) The statement is irrelevant, because parties were not involved in the crisis. D) It demonstrates the truth of the statement, because new factions emerged in response to the crisis.