What was the general implication taken from the U.S. Supreme Court's statement "as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of a woman becomes the object of public interest and care in order to preserve the
strength and vigor of the race" in its decision in the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon? A) Working women were given paid maternity leave for six weeks.
B) Feminists who believed in total equality were satisfied with the Court's ruling.
C) Working women and Progressive women developed a "blacklist" of businesses that did not
support women's equality.
D) Women won shorter working hours because the Court believed they were biologically
inferior to men.
D
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A) Maryland. B) Pennsylvania. C) New Jersey. D) New York.
Which of the following provides evidence of the cooling climate in the sixteenth century?
a. extinction of certain forms of sea life b. southern migration of populations c. growth of glaciers d. destruction of natural land bridges in the northern hemisphere
The Chinese allowed the Portuguese to build the trading base of Macao
a. To encourage more trade with Europe. b. To stop Portuguese piracy. c. To encourage more conversions to Catholicism. d. To discourage more internal trade. e. To support Chinese merchants.
The dreaded journey in which captured Africans were transported to the Americas to be sold as slaves was called the ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).