The Progressive Era's Birth-Control Movement Was Characterized By

question 28

Multiple Choice

The Progressive era's birth-control movement was characterized by:

• A) public lectures on sexual freedom and contraception by activists such as Emma Goldman.
• B) little beyond reassuring women that they had the right to refuse their husband's sexual advances.
• C) the distribution of birth-control devices by Margaret Sanger.
• D) a belief in a woman's right to an active sexual life, but only in conjunction with childbearing.
• E) A and C.

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