All of the following are TRUE about Samuel M. Jones, the mayor of Toledo from 1897-1904 EXCEPT
A) he called on voters to renounce political parties.
B) he instituted an 8-hour day for city workers.
C) he spent municipal funds to open kindergartens and parks.
D) he was forced to eventually resign because he had stolen millions from the city treasury.
Answer: D
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A) There was a fear that sprawling urban growth was destroying the spiritual healing that nature provided. B) There was a desire to meet the working-class demand for a quiet place to relax. C) There was a desire to demonstrate that cities could support themselves. D) There was a hope of taming the undeveloped areas that still remained within city borders. E) There was a need to find a use for undeveloped city land.
Though barred from the Assembly, Athenian women could, as a rule
a. hold some public offices and represent themselves in court. b. retain children after a divorce. c. dine with their husbands and join them at the theatre. d. attend to household chores including doing the shopping. e. none of the above
Middle-class women in the central 1800s generally
A) lived lives removed from their husbands' workplace. B) refused to take in boarders. C) lived lives of comfort, centered on their parlors. D) ceased to earn wages.
__________ was a graduate of the Troy Female Seminary and a tireless advocate of women's rights
A) Catharine Beecher B) Emma Willard C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton D) Apolonaria Lorenzana