Author Question: Women joined the temperance movement during the progressive movement for all of the following ... (Read 94 times)

james0929 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution banned

A) the manufacture and sale of liquor.
B) the poll tax that voters had to pay in order to cast a ballot.
C) women the right to vote.
D) public schools from participating in praying during school hours.

Question 2

The woman who returned to Kiowa, Kansas to smash up alcohol bottles at a local saloon was

A) Jane Addams.
B) Carry Nation.
C) Frances Willard.
D) Mary Williams.

Question 3

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union

A) was a labor union for women who worked in alcohol distilleries across the country.
B) worked to bring about a stronger Sunday school curriculum across several Protestant churches.
C) worked to bring about the ban of using wine during communion at church services.
D) emerged as a national organization dedicated to banning the sale and distribution of alcohol.

Question 4

Women joined the temperance movement during the progressive movement for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) they saw alcohol as a mechanism of draining away the family income.
B) they simply could not afford the excessively high taxes on alcohol.
C) they saw alcohol as the root of spousal and child abuse.
D) they had heard Protestant Christian ministers preach against the evils of alcohol.