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Chapter 03 Reading Quiz
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Alice Paul was inspired to develop new tactics for the American womenâs suffrage movement by
British suffragist leaders Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
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French feminist Olympe de Gouges
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Radical writers like Mary Wollstonecraft
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Other leaders of the womanâs suffrage movement like Carrie Chapman Catt
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Sigmund Freudâs work in psychology tied the anxiety of modern society to
The industrial workplace
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Sexual repression
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The natural human tendency toward aggression
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The patriarchy
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Suffrage was granted in the US and Britain after World War I
Because of a new recognition of womenâs true equality to men
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As a part of the treaty negotiations to end the war
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As part of the fight against immigrants taking over US politics
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As a reward for public service during the war
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The treatment of African Americans in the US grew worse in the early 20th century, in part because
They had been too successful in the late 19th century
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Because of a resurgent white nationalist movement
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Progressives abandoned their cause in favor of womenâs sufrage
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Of the popularity of colonialism, justified by the ideas of social Darwinism
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Mother Jones was originalle
A pioneer of the womenâs suffrage movement
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A leftist magazine
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A labor organizer
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A proponent of womenâs primary role as a wife and mother
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Rerum Novarum, the 1890 papal encyclical
Called for ameliorating the conditions of labor
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Called for an end to labor unions
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Rejected socialism as evil
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Rejected anti-Semitism and called for an end to persecution of the Jews
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Some experiments in Progressive reform failed, for example,
Womenâs suffrage
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Settlement houses
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Prohibition
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Legalization of marijuana
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Regimes that clung to antiquated forms of authority into the 20th century
Tended to turn to socialism
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Were subject to violent overthrow
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Modernized slowly but steadily
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Turned to religious extremism
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Laissez faire beliefs remained strong in the United States because
America lacked an aristocratic class system
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America had outlawed slavery during the Civil War
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Americans were open to Progressive ideas
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Americans were inherently conservative
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An example of the success of American reformers was the invention of
The municipal playground
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The washing machine
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The telephone
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The vacuum cleaner
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