Author Question: Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government ... (Read 53 times)

tsand2 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Congress's passage of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act demonstrated that the federal government

a. was beginning to address the issue of equal treatment of mothers in the workplace.
b. was prepared to take substantial steps toward federally funded child care.
c. was indifferent to mothers working outside the home and providing maternal and infant health care.
d. supported pregnancy and maternity leave benefits for women
e. was willing to benefit and support women primarily in their role as mothers.

Question 2

In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and the segregated system that the South had created, African Americans used all of the following methods except

a. economic boycotts.
b. legal attacks on the underpinnings of segregation in the courts.
c. appeals to foreign governments to pressure the United States to establish racial justice.
d. mobilization of black churches on behalf of black rights.
e. use of the nonviolent tactics of Mohandas Gandhi.