Author Question: The chart Women and Work, 19002000 implies that the steady increase of women in the workforce after ... (Read 31 times)

imowrer · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The statement that while we have land to labour, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work bench, supports Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States as a nation of __________.

A) thriving industrial artisans
B) independent yeoman farmers
C) fiery revolutionaries
D) wealthy slave owners

Question 2

How did Reginald Marsh's sketch Bread Line respond to Hoover's statement that no one is actually starving?

A) The men are waiting in line to receive food; the drawing celebrates Hoover's leadership.
B) The men are gaunt, isolated, and clearly suffering; Hoover's statement is ironic.
C) The men are portrayed without their families, which were likely going hungry; this omission
was a form of propaganda.
D) The men are banding together to start a riot; the drawing expresses rage at Hoover's
indifference.

Question 3

What caused hardships for wheat farmers on the Great Plains in the 1880s?

A) a sudden spike in the price of wheat
B) rising interest rates for bank loans
C) agricultural competition from foreign nations
D) the dwindling supply of available homesteads

Question 4

The chart Women and Work, 19002000 implies that the steady increase of women in the workforce after 1970 was due largely to __________.

A) the resolution of racial and ethnic prejudice and rising divorce rates
B) affordable day care services and comparable salaries to working men
C) changing attitudes about married women in the workforce and declining birthrates
D) the development of new appliances and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment