Why were women's rights leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton upset about the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution?
A) These amendments didn't go far enough in safeguarding the rights of African Americans.
B) Several southern states had not ratified them, yet were readmitted to the Union.
C) The Fourteenth Amendment gave rights to men only by including the word "male" and the Fifteenth didn't fix this problem.
D) The Fourteenth Amendment only granted white men the right to vote ? not white women or any freedmen and women.
E) These amendments guaranteed suffrage for all freed people, but did not enfranchise women.
C
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Which of the following outcomes was achieved by utopian thought?
A) It minimized the prospect of inevitable conflict between economic classes. B) It decreased the willingness of property owners to address problems of inequity. C) It increased the awareness in the educational differences of social classes. D) It fought the system in which people were placed into different categories. E) It urged citizens to divide their money equally among themselves.
What 1920s novelist coined the term "the Jazz Age"?
A) Ernest Hemingway B) John dos Passos C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) H.L. Mencken
Which of the following statements represents the Singer Sewing Machine Company?
a. It was an early example of a company that marketed its product to consumers around the world. b. It was a highly successful and adaptive company. c. It was one of the early indications that a globalized economy was not only possible but also profitable. d. All of the above are true.
What was President Eisenhower's role in the efforts in 1957 to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
a. When segregationist mobs attacked black children and began to riot, he sent in federal troops to keep order. b. He went on national television and told the American people that segregation was wrong. c. He ordered his attorney general to file a friend of the court brief that supported the school board's efforts to maintain segregation. d. He congratulated the governor for being willing to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to keep out black children.