The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they
a. provided literary and philosophical perspectives on social questions.
b. broke down the idea that women had special concerns as wives and mothers.
c. introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns.
d. were the only organizations of middle-class women that advocated for social reforms and civic concerns for urban problems.
e. became the launching pads for women seeking political office.
Question 2
The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
a. a nuclear weapon was the only way to win the war.
b. the Germans might acquire and use such a weapon first against the Allies.
c. the Japanese were at work on an atomic bomb project of their own.
d. scientists like Albert Einstein might be lost to the war effort.
e. the American public would not tolerate the casualties that would result from a land invasion of Japan.