True or False
Changing Roles 1
Changing Roles 2
Changing Roles 3
Changing Roles 4
100
True or False: Before the turn of the century, women had limited control over their own property and income.
What is true?
100
This grew into a massive industry primarily due to infrastructure expansion and the isolation of rural consumers. It allowed rural consumers to shop.
What is mail-order catalogues?
100
True or False: Many believed that empowering women would upset social order.
What is true?
100
How did being able to shop at stores or through the mail change the traditional household expectations of women?
What is, they used to produce clothes from scratch?
200
True or False: At the turn of the century, women still had no right to vote.
What is true?
200
At the turn of the century, society felt that __________ and _________ did not mix well. Women could not do both.
What is marriage and career?
200
Why did employers not give promotions or training to female employees?
What is, they assumed women would leave to get married in their mid-20s?
200
What is term for the right or privilege of voting; franchise?
Hint: Often confused with a word that means pain, distress, or harm.
What is suffrage?
200
_________ service remained the most common occupation for young women, with 60% of working women employed in this sector by 1910.
Hint: The word means of or relating to the family or household. It can also mean of, relating to, or originating within a country and especially one's own country.
What is domestic?
300
True or False: After the rise of chain stores, store prices got higher.
What is false? Chain stores resulted in lower prices.
300
Most single female workers were between__ and __.
What is 16 and 24?
300
Name two common rules for women at the turn of the century?
What are nurse, teacher, typist, and phone operator?
300
What made house work less demanding and time-consuming?
Hint: The answer is general, not specific.
What is new technology?
300
______ _________ remained illegal to discuss or distribute until the first clinic opened in 1921.
What is birth control?
400
True or False: By 1900, everyone had electricity, and women could use electric cleaning tools.
What is false? Majority US households gained access to electricity by 1925 or 1930, with sources citing 50% adoption by 1925 and 70% by 1930.
400
At the turn of the century, meals and food were not produced by scratch as much/as often. What were women doing instead?
What is tin can food/pre-made food?
400
What made the new jobs (typist and operator) at the turn of the century acceptable for women to have?
What is they were not competitive with men?
400
This unpaid activity became a primary avenue for women to exercise agency and effect societal change.
What is volunteering?
500
What is this mechanical device for the cleaning of carpets? They were popular before the introduction of the vacuum cleaner.
What is a carpet sweeper?
500
How did farm families receive department store items?
What is rural free delivery (RFD)?
500
Name one of the first department stores, which we read about in the book?
What is Marshall Field's or Macy's?
500
Historically, the New Woman (late 19th–early 20th century) was characterized by a shift from restrictive Victorian bustles to streamlined, practical, and manageable outfits that allowed for active lives, often featuring....? Name one from our reading.
What is shorter hair, shorter skirt or blouse?