How did Progressive Era reforms change the lives of women and children?
What will be an ideal response?
The reforms limited women's work hours and in many states ended child labor and required more years of schooling for children.
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According to the authors, an important difference between southern and northern women's
writing was that the former tended to A) have only southern audiences in mind. B) find no publishers in the North. C) be more likely to be influenced by political issues. D) have only northern audiences in mind.
Describe the steps taken by feminists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What issues did they address, and what was the outcome?
What will be an ideal response?
Which regarding women during the period of the Enlightenment is FALSE?
a. Women often sponsored and participated in intellectual salons. b. European enlightened society saw women as intellectual equals. c. Margaret Cavendish argued that restrictions on women resulted from nothing more than "the over-weening conceit men have of themselves." d. Mary Astell argued that absolute authority was not acceptable in the state or home. e. Mary Wollstonecraft believed that women should be allowed to achieve their full potential though education, citizenship, and financial autonomy.
In the early part of the Civil War, the sympathies of the ruling classes in France and England lay with the Confederacy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)