Reference no: EM132100279

1. In Personnel Administrator v. Feeney, the Supreme Court upheld the veteran’s preference law because:

a. men and women were veterans in equal numbers in Massachusetts

b. Congress enacted a law giving veterans preference in civil service jobs

c. there was no intent to discriminate against women

d. the law would have a minimal impact on women

2. In Rostker v. Goldberg, how did Congress justify the all-male registration policy?

a. to prepare for a draft of combat troops

b. public opinion was against women in combat

c. the military thought women could not compete with men in combat

d. none of the above

3. Alice Paul invigorated the women’s suffrage movement by

a. bringing together the NWSA and the AWSA.

b. using militant tactics she experienced in the British suffrage movement.

c. pressuring President Woodrow Wilson

d. encouraging black, poor and immigrant women to join.

4. The women’s suffrage movement became fractured after the Supreme Court ruled in Minor v. Happersett that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote because:

a. many women did not want the right to vote after the many setbacks.

b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton refused to attend women’s rights conventions.

c. two women’s suffrage organizations were formed that took different strategies.

d. Susan B. Anthony was jailed for trying to vote in a presidential election.

5. Minor v. Happersett was a major setback to the women’s suffrage movement because:

a. only an amendment to the Constitution would grant women suffrage in the United States.

b. the Supreme Court would have to vote in favor of women’s suffrage in another case.

c. enormous sums of money would have to be raised to lobby Congress and the states.

d. all of the above.