Women/Chicano Power DOL

Why did Chicano migrant workers establish the United Farm Workers?

• To exert influence on foreign policy

• To obtain fair wages and improve labor conditions

• To attain the right to vote in federal elections

• To change citizenship requirements

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How did Chavez accomplish the change referred to in this excerpt?

• By promoting military service as an opportunity for minority youths

• By filing legal cases to overturn segregation in public facilities

• By organizing an economic boycott to improve working conditions for migrant farmers

• By protesting fines imposed on employers for hiring illegal immigrants

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This 1972 poster depicts an organization originally formed to advocate -

• publicly funded health care for children

• better economic treatment of migrant workers

• a retirement system for farm laborers

• equal employment opportunities for women

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How have these groups helped shape U.S. culture?

• By fighting against child labor

• By supporting strict immigration quotas

• By focusing on expanding civil rights for minorities

• By lobbying against equal pay for equal work

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During the 1940s and 1950s, the primary goal of Mexican - American litigation was to -

• eliminate the legal segregation of Mexican Americans

• form a new nation for Mexican Americans

• create separate Mexican - American economic and social institutions

• establish affirmative action programs to compensate for past wrongs

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What did the Women's Liberation Movement see as its major goal in the 1960s?

• obtaining the right to vote for women

• guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work

• enabling women to stay at home as well as work

• laws that would allow women to own property

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Cesar Chavez, Hector Garcia, and Betty Friedan were similar in that they all -

• were members of the Black Panther Movement

• were leaders in the rights and equal opportunity

• opposed the non-violent approach to obtaining civil rights

• had as their main goal the achievement of greater opportunities for women

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Which action led to the changes shown in the bar graph?

• passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act

• the introduction of Head Start programs

• an increase in the number of nonpublic schools

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Which book played a role in changing attitudes about traditional gender roles in American society?

• Common Sense

• The Jungle

• How the Other Half Lives

• The Feminine Mystique

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The data in the chart shows that between 1960 and 1990 -

• women's earnings compared to men's remained unchanged

• most higher paying jobs were still not legally open to women

• the government passed laws that successfully gave women equal jobs

• the earnings gap between men and women only slightly improved

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