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Your opinion needs to be validated by using the textbook (attached below) as EVIDENCE.

Cite examples from the associated chapter in American Yawp textbook, and 2 outside source to support your analysis.

Provide a brief works cited (MLA format) at the end of your post. The first half a page for questions 1, 2, 3. The second half is for questions 3, 4, 5.

Questions:

1. Women did not earn the right to vote in the U.S. less than one century ago. Why did U.S. lawmakers initially only allow white landowning American men to vote?

2. Why did American men (and some women) oppose allowing women to exercise their right to vote in local, state, and federal elections?

3. Watch the dramatic reenactment of the force feeding of Alice Paul in the feature film, Iron Jawed Angels. Why do you think the force feeding of Paul, and the treatment of the imprisoned suffragists in general, generated support for the suffragists? Support your opinion with observations from the film.

4.Review the pamphlet, You wouldn’t expect…, created in ca. 1950 by the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, an organization formed in 1947 to encourage the sterilization of certain Americans. What is/are the message(s) of the pamphlet, You wouldn’t expect…? (attached below)

5. What ultimately do you think was the goal of the Human Betterment League of North Carolina?

6. What is your opinion of the policy of compulsory sterilization during the twentieth century?