Which of the following statements accurately reflects trends during the 1920s regarding women in the work force?
A) With their new feeling of "liberation" gained during World War I, women made gigantic inroads into previously all-male professions.
B) Most college women entered such traditionally "female" professions as nursing, school teaching, and librarianship.
C) The proportion of working women who were single rose by about 30%, as single women came to dominate teaching at the university level.
D) The number of women in the workforce declined.
E) The number of women physicians soared.
B
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The pope called for a crusade to root out the Cathars because they
A) had attracted a large following and the pope believed they were heretics. B) had refused to support the pope's efforts to spread Christianity in Africa. C) were secretive and reclusive and the pope felt they were suspicious. D) rejected the spiritual aspect of mankind. E) had become too powerful in northern France.
Which of the following is not a true statement about African American soldiers during the war with Spain? a. They were pivotal to the U.S. success at Santiago
b. Theodore Roosevelt hailed their ability as soldiers. c. Their service led them to similar combat roles in subsequent conflicts. d. After the war, Theodore Roosevelt increasingly downplayed their contributions. e. On San Juan Hill, they were racially intermixed with white troops.
By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
a. became greater than in all of Europe. b. had increased to the point of overpopulation. c. had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels. d. remained tiny compared with the number in England. e. was about one-third of the population.
The numerous near-wars and diplomatic crises of the United States in the late 1880s and 1890s demonstrated
a. the hostile reaction to American expansionism. b. that American diplomacy was reckless and incompetent. c. how weak America seemed to the rest of the world. d. the failure of the Monroe Doctrine. e. the aggressive new national mood.