What challenges did women face in the 1990s?
What will be an ideal response?
By the 1990s, many women were most concerned with their economic position. Students should be able to describe the challenges that women faced in the workplace, including sexual harassment and the glass ceiling. Also, students may point out growing pressure from anti-abortion groups to limit women's access to abortions. Good students will further describe the challenges many women faced in trying to balance a career and family and how they sought to make the workplace more parent-friendly.
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As the Atlantic slave trade ended, Africans engaged in which of the following to maintain their economic structure?
A) They continued the slave trade with Arabs in East Africa. B) They expanded the ivory trade. C) They expanded the gold trade. D) They traded palm oil and peanuts. E) all of the above.
What did television in the 1950s do?
A) It helped to demolish old gender and racial stereotypes. B) It exposed American viewers to the harsh realities of the "other America." C) It reinforced consumerism and conformity. D) It decreased the cost of political campaigning while increasing the content level of political discussion. E) It was still too primitive to have much impact on American politics.
President Johnson used the Tonkin Gulf incident to
A. bring alleged South Vietnamese corruption to the attention of the United Nations. B. win Congressional approval of a resolution authorizing him to use American forces in Vietnam. C. begin a sustained bombing campaign against the Viet Cong. D. press for a complete reappraisal of America's Vietnam policy.
In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan
A. primarily attracted upper-class single males and females of declining social status. B. primarily focused its hatred on the "New Negro." C. was not entirely a small-town organization. D. did not really exist as an influential organization, despite media ballyhoo.