Chapter 21 Test Continued – Flashcards
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Claude McKay
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Poet, wrote militant verses urging African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination; urban setting
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Langston Hughes
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Poet, known for poems that described the difficult everyday lives of working class African Americans
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Why did some Americans promote Prohibition?
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1. Believed too much drinking led to crime, wife beating, child beating/neglect, accidents on the job, other social problems 2. Drinking was sinful 3. Government should outlaw liquor to protect the public's health and morals
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After World War I, many female college graduates entered "women's professions," such as ____________ and ______________
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nursing and teaching
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While 10 million women were in the workforce by 1930, few had risen to _________________ positions
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managerial
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In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first _______ clinic in the country
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birth-control
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A number of women in the 1920s displayed their new sense of freedom by ________ and ________ in public
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smoking and drinking
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Women in the 1920s experienced greater freedom through the help of technological innovations that simplified _________
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household labor
