Ch11 US Women’s Activism History Full Test Bank

Chapter 11 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

1. What important factor(s) prevented the passage of ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) in 1982? (Answer on p. 340)

2. What are some shortcomings of the three waves model of feminism? (Answer on pp. 330-331)

3. Compare and contrast the meanings of the terms “equality feminism” and “difference feminism” for the political and social-cultural goals and strategies for the modern women’s movement. (Answer on pp. 349-350)

4. Who were the Lowell Mill girls? Why did they strike against their employer in 1834 and 1836? (Answer on pp. 333-335)

5. How did the Iroquois provide an inspirational example for nineteenth century women’s rights leaders like Matilda Joslyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? (Answer on pp. 336-337)

6. Explain how American women assumed leadership positions within the American labor movement during the 1930s and 1940s? Why did labor feminists advocate the notion of a provider wage and address the problem of women’s double work day in their organizing work? (Answer on pp. 341-343)

7. When did the phrase “Third Wave feminism” become publicly known in America? Why is it difficult to distinguish Third Wave feminism from its predecessor, Second Wave feminism? (Answer on pp. 356-357)

8. Why does the Combahee River Collective Statement point out that “[w]e struggle together with Black men against racism, while we also struggle with Black men about sexism?” (Answer on p. 352)

9. Define the term “multiracial feminism.” How does this term encompass the feminist activism and organizing of women who felt marginalized by the liberal Second Wave feminist movement? (Answer on pp. 350-351)

10. Why does feminist activist and writer Jennifer Baumgardner utilize a “wave” periodization for creating a timeline of American women’s history? How does she distinguish between each “wave period” in the history of American feminism? (Answer on pp. 329-330)

Short Answer

1. What are the Comstock Laws, and how did these affect the birth control movement? (Answer on pp. 343-344)

2. How did African American women activists bring public attention to the horror and true motivations of lynchings of Black people? (Answer on p. 341)

3. Betty Freidan’s influential book The Feminine Mystique has been acknowledged as an important factor within the so-called Second Wave feminist movement. However, why are some feminist scholars critical of its focus and advice to women? (Answer on pp. 346-347)

4. Explain why sisters Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf were part of a class action suit involving sterilization? How did their case expose the racial and class-based nature of punitive sterilization in American history? (Answer on pp. 354-355)

5. Who coined the term “Gaga Feminism” and why? Why does it not have a specific political agenda? (Answer on pp. 359-360)

6. Why did the National Woman’s Party embrace confrontational tactics and proudly call itself “Feminist”? (Answer on pp. 335-337)

7. Who was Ernestine Rose? Why did she endure enmity and isolation within and outside the women’s rights movement during the 19^th century? (Answer on p. 333)

8. Why didn’t the passage of the 19^th amendment expand voters among African American, Mexican, Native American, and Asian American communities? (Answer on pp. 338-339)

9. Explain why reproductive choice became the focus of the modern feminist movement after 1960? (Answer on pp. 354-355)

10. What is the Riot Grrrl movement? Why is the use of alternative media key to understanding its interpretation of Third Wave feminism’s socio-cultural and political messages? (Answer on p. 359)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did National Woman’s Party picket the White House in support of suffrage? (E is correct. Answer on p. 338)

a. 1910

b. 1916

c. 1914

d. 1919

e. 1917

2. Which one of the following states were the Grimké sisters Angelina and Sarah born in? (B is correct. Answer on p. 331)

a. Virginia

b. South Carolina

c. Georgia

d. Alabama

e. Maryland

3. Who was called the “guiding light” of the Underground Railroad? (D is correct. Answer on p. 332)

a. Mary Prince

b. Sarah Mapp Douglass

c. Elizabeth Freeman

d. Harriet Tubman

e. Sarah Parker Redmond

4. Where did the document The Declaration of Sentiments originate? (A is correct. Answer on p. 335)

a. Seneca Falls Convention

b. Second Continental Congress

c. First National Women’s Rights Convention

d. National Women’s Trade Union League

e. The First Woman’s National Loyal League Convention

5. Which abolitionist society during the nineteenth century was integrated? (C is correct. Answer on p. 332)

a. American Baptist Anti-Slavery Society

b. American Wesleyan Anti-Slavery Society

c. Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

d. Church Anti-Slavery Society

e. Lane Anti-Slavery Society

6. Which one of the following suffrage leaders had important personal contact with Iroquois women in the 19^th century? (E is correct. Answer on p. 336)

a. Alice Paul

b. Dora Lewis

c. Harriet Stanton Blatch

d. Mary Livermore

e. Lucretia Mott

7. What year did President Woodrow Wilson first announce his support for suffrage? (A is correct. Answer on p. 339)

a. 1918

b. 1919

c. 1917

d. 1920

e. 1916

8. Which one of the following famous early 20^th century women rights leaders first championed the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)? (D is correct. Answer on p. 340)

a. Mary Anderson

b. Julia Lathrop

c. Rose Schneiderman

d. Alice Paul

e. Alice Hamilton

9. Who among the following Latina activists led the largest labor strikes in San Antonio history during the 1930s? (B is correct. Answer on p. 342)

a. Josefina Fierro de Bright

b. Emma Tenayuca

c. Auroa Castillo

d. Sophie González

e. María Flores

10. Which one of the following places was the site for early clinical trials for the birth control pill? (E is correct. Answer on p. 344)

a. New Jersey

b. Illinois

c. Guam

d. Florida

e. Puerto Rico

11. What year was the Equal Employment Opportunity Act decreed? (A is correct. Answer on p. 349)

a. 1972

b. 1969

c. 1971

d. 1973

e. 1974

12. Which one of the following organizations was formed in 1971 by Chicanas? (C is correct. Answer on p. 351)

a. Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional

b. MANA

c. Hijas de Cuauhtémoc

d. Hermanitas

e. Latina Leadership Institute

13. What year was Roe v. Wade argued before the U.S. Supreme Court? (E is correct. Answer on p. 354)

a. 1975

b. 1970

c. 1971

d. 1974

e. 1973

14. Who wrote the book Backlash? (B is correct. Answer on p. 356)

a. Susie Bright

b. Susan Faludi

c. Charlotte Bunch

d. Rita Mae Brown

e. Kate Millet

15. When was the first AIDS service organizations formed in New York and San Francisco? (D is correct. Answer on p. 357)

a. 1979

b. 1983

c. 1985

d. 1982

e. 1980

16. Who created the feminist approach called “Gaga feminism”? (A is correct. Answer on p. 359)

a. Jack Halberstam

b. Octavia Butler

c. Jessica Valenti

d. Judith Butler

e. Rebecca Solnit

17. Who coauthored the book Manifesta? (E is correct. Answer on p. 361)

a. Susan Douglas

b. Anne Sprinkle

c. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

d. Lisa Duggan

e. Amy Richards

18. When was contraception permitted in all 50 U.S. states? (C is correct. Answer on p. 354)

a. 1968

b. 1961

c. 1965

d. 1963

e. 1962

19. Who introduced the term “double jeopardy” to describe the dual discrimination faced by Black women? (D is correct. Answer on p. 351)

a. Maya Angelou

b. bell hooks

c. Octavia Butler

d. Frances Beal

e. Audre Lorde

20. Which of the following feminists was a founding member of NOW (National Organization of Women)? (A is correct. Answer on p. 347)

a. Pauli Murray

b. Julie Bindel

c. Andrea Dworkin

d. Barbara Love

e. Ellen Willis

21. Which one of the following American presidents supported the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)? (E is correct. Answer on p. 340)

a. Franklin Roosevelt

b. George Walker Bush

c. Woodrow Wilson

d. Howard Taft

e. Richard Nixon

22. Which famous suffrage leader said publicly that white women were more suitable for citizenship than Black men? (C is correct. Answer on p. 335)

a. Sarah Grimké

b. Lucy Stone

c. Susan B. Anthony

d. Frances Willard

e. Victoria Woodhull

23. Who was the first Black woman to speak before a mixed audience of men and women? (A is correct. Answer on p. 332)

a. Maria Stewart

b. Charlotte Forten

c. Ellen Craft

d. Margaretta Forten

e. Hetty Reckless

24. When did the group WARN bring public attention to forced sterilization of Native American women? (D is correct. Answer on p. 351)

a. 1960s

b. 1980s

c. 1950s

d. 1970s

e. 1990s

25. Which one of the following Latina activists created the Chicana National Welfare Rights Organization? (B is correct. Answer on p. 351)

a. Dolores Huerta

b. Alicia Escalante

c. Jovita Idar

d. Francisca Flores

e. Aurora Levins Morales

True or False Questions

1. There exist no continuities between Second and Third Wave feminisms. (False. See p. 362)

2. Nearly half of the women who have been involuntarily sterilized in American history are Native American. (False. Answer on p. 355)

3. Katherine Ellickson worked in the Kennedy Administration. (True. See p. 342)

4. The Lowell Female Labor Reform Association was formed in 1836. (False. Answer on 334-335)

5. Most American Quakers refused to condemn slavery during the 18^th century. (False. Answer on p. 331)

6. Many Spanish and Mexican women lost their property rights when the Mexican frontier was annexed by the United States in the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848. (True. Answer on p. 337)

7. Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1917. (False. Answer on p. 344)

8. One of the 2011 Medal of Freedom recipients was Dolores Huerta, cofounder of UFW (United Farmworkers of America). (True. Answer on p. 352)

9. Civil rights leader Ella Baker was important to the founding of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). (True. Answer on p. 346)

10. In its 1998 cover, Time magazine asked, “Is Feminism Dead?” Their answer was no. (False. Answer on p. 356)