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AP U.S. History — Mixed Skills — Drill 25

Drill 25 · Multiple Choice · Mixed Skills

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AP U.S. History — Mixed Skills — Drill 25 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Mixed Skills. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Mixed Skills drill uses a modern historian's analysis of the history of women in America. Questions address the historian's challenge to a simple progress narrative, the limitations of the Nineteenth Amendment for Black women, and the broader arc of gender equality in U.S. history.

Passage

The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay on the history of women in America. The history of women in America cannot be written as a simple story of progress from exclusion to inclusion. At every stage where women gained formal legal or political rights, the gains were partial, contested, and unevenly distributed across lines of race and class. The Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed the vote to women, but literacy tests, poll taxes, and racial terror effectively excluded most Black women in the South for another four decades. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibited wage discrimination by sex, but it contained exemptions that left domestic workers and agricultural laborers — disproportionately women of color — outside its protections. To write the history of American women as a story of progress is to write the history of some women — largely white, middle-class women — while rendering invisible the experiences of others whose legal gains lagged far behind.

Questions in This Drill

  1. The historian's argument that the history of American women 'cannot be written as a simple story of progress' most directly challenges which of the following approaches to women's history?
  2. The historian's observation that the Nineteenth Amendment's guarantees were undermined for Black women in the South 'for another four decades' most directly refers to which of the following developments?
  3. The historian's example of the Equal Pay Act of 1963's exemptions most directly illustrates which of the following patterns in American legal history?
  4. The historian's argument that standard women's history narratives describe the experience of 'largely white, middle-class women' most directly reflects the influence of which of the following intellectual developments in historical scholarship?
  5. Which of the following most directly supports the historian's argument that formal legal gains for women were 'unevenly distributed across lines of race and class'?