Cultural forces conspire to encourage women to seek fulfillment in a domestic life.

Women need to more effectively organize resistance in order to gain equality in American society.

Women are naturally predisposed towards finding happiness in domesticity and motherhood.

The greatest obstacle to female equality is the disparagement of women by other women.

Religious influences have affected the image of femininity throughout human history.

the rise in immigration from Latin American countries

the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision

the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment

the rise of the Gay Rights Movement

the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s

It was the sight of the hippie movement

It was the sight of hydrogen bomb testing

It was home to many free blacks who escaped via the Underground Railroad

It served as the political base of the Free-Soil Party

It was the first area in which gold was discovered in California, precipitating the California Gold Rush

Ernest Hemmingway

T.S. Elliot

Sinclair Lewis

Jack London

F. Scott Fitzgerald

an ideology promoting separate black organizations and institutions to advance African-Americans position in American society

the founding of a separate country for African-Americans in the American west

arguing for assimilation among the white majority as the best hope for the betterment of African-Americans

a desire acquiesce to the white power structure inherent in American society and deal with the consequences

the arming of all slaves to kill all slave owners with the help of White northern abolitionists