19. PROGRESSIVISM AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER, 1900

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 19.4 Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” 1919

Quiz for Solo Analysis Document 19.4: Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” 1919

1. According to Margaret Sanger’s article, what must first succeed in order for the eugenists to succeed?

Progressivism

Suffrage

Social gospel

Birth control

2. Though she does not explicitly reference other races, what does Sanger imply in her last sentence about making a “better race”?

Birth control would eliminate poverty.

Birth control would eliminate biracial children.

Birth control would eliminate job competition.

Birth control would eliminate illness.

3. What is one of the most important foundations for Sanger’s motivation in supporting birth control?

Economics

Religion

Health

Education

4. On what major point did Sanger argue that birth control ideologies differed from those of eugenists?

Ethical arguments

Gender equality

Legality

Reproduction

5. What goal did birth control advocates and eugenists share?

Eliminate the unfit.

Create a super race.

Lower infant mortality.

Promote women’s health care.

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