Suburbanization in the 1920s
A) was made possible by the success of the automobile.
B) was confined primarily to the Northeast.
C) resulted from the passage of anti-segregation legislation.
D) discouraged the creation of new retail businesses.
E) resolved many tensions between the lower and upper classes.
A
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a. Progressives supported the movement. b. reformers embraced votes for women as a way to elevate the political tone. c. Prohibitionists thought they could count of votes of enfranchised women. d. a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote was about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states. e. states in the West were the first in the country to gradually extend the vote to women.