The answer is false because they were actually against it!
Mount Rushmore is located in South Dakota.
The factor that benefited the Republican Party in the 1970s was: <span>reaction by some white southerners to passage of civil rights laws
Back then, the southerners still haven't supported the equal civil rights laws for the minority citizens. This massively decreased Kennedy's support that became the Republican main opposition during that time.</span>
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
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The example could support the author's main purpose in the book -like other similar books- in that it shows the long and difficult road that passed before the federal government could grant women the right to vote.
It is true that before women were allowed to vote, both men and women organized, protested, and marched until the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote in 1920.
We can refer to history and focus on the beginning of the women's suffrage movement that started during the Seneca Falls Convention of July 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York. An event organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton. That long was the road to the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.