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How would you describe women’s involvement in the Civil War, both on the homefront, and on the battlefield?

The Great Migration, which happened around World War I, was a movement of African American people out of the South to higher-paying jobs in the North.

A fire in this factory killed 146 women because the exit doors were locked to keep out labor activists (and to keep workers in).

In what ways have television messages about gender roles changed since the 1950s?

The New Frontier movement did get the _______ passed in 1963 – but it was limited to those already covered in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.

Mitosis results in genetically unique cells because of cross over and independent assortment.  

The most dramatic change in women’s work between 1945-1965 was the entree of white married women into the labor market, taking advantage of “respectable” jobs that were now available.

If a male chooses to have no more children, which structure is clamped to prevent the passage of sperm:

Women used the term______ to describe the kinds of reforms they supported.

The testes are located in the scrotum to maintain a temperature approximately 3-5 degrees warmer than body temperature.