Question

question in comments :)

Answer 1

Based on Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change, which quotation helps develop the central idea that some people did not support the idea of women participating in cycling races?

Answer 2

Acording to her account, the men disagreed on whether or not a woman could ride a bicyle around the world as American Thopmas Stevens had done in the 1880s.

“I don’t like when my husband is with me,” [Dora Rinehart] told The Cycling West magazine in 1897. “For you know it does take so much starch out of a man to ride a century, especially if he be not in the best of shape.”

“Miss Yatman plainly showed the effects of the terrible strain in her countenance,” reporteed the New York Times, “and said that the ride was torture during the last twety-five miles.”

In 1896, Sporting Life applauded what the newspaper saw as the failure of a recent six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, declaring, "This ensures that the disgusting and degrading exhibition will not soon be repeated.”

Answer 3

@Love_Ranaa

Answer 4

Are those the answer choices right there

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

I know it is not the first option because there is no quotation in it

Answer 7

In 1896, Sporting Life applauded what the newspaper saw as the failure of a recent six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, declaring, "This ensures that the disgusting and degrading exhibition will not soon be repeated.”

Answer 8

sure?

Answer 9

Yes, since it said cycling races

Answer 10

okay thanks

Answer 11

one more question

Answer 12

You should probably post it in a separate post :)

Answer 13

When Americans took to the wheel in the late 1800s, they also took to the newsstand. The first U.S. cycling periodical, Bicycling World, rolled off the presses in 1877, a year before Colonel Albert Pope introduced his Columbia high wheeler. By 1894, there were more than 50 cycling publications to choose from stateside and many more around the world.

Answer 14

The statistic in the last sentence helps develop the idea that bicycle racing was a popular sport in the 1880s and 1890s by showing that

Answer 15

the success of the first cycling periodical in 1877 quickly led to the publication of many more cycling magazines.

the rapid increase in publications about cycling was directly responsible for Americans’ growing interest in bicycles.

Americans became interested in cycling around the same time that the publication industry began to flourish.

Americans’ fascination with the bicycle influenced the rapid growth that occurred in the publication industry.

Answer 16

Ahem

Answer 17

the success of the first cycling periodical in 1877 quickly led to the publication of many more cycling magazines.

Answer 18

i see why u say that @Love_Ranaa but other choices seem good too

Answer 19

Or maybe Americans’ fascination with the bicycle influenced the rapid growth that occurred in the publication industry.

Answer 20

yeah exactly. Confused btw those two
@King.Void. help needed