Question

Which excerpts from Chapter 5 of Wheels of Change provide insight into changing social values of the time? Check all that apply.

"The bicycle," she wrote, "will inspire women with more courage, self-respect and self-reliance and make the next generation more vigorous of mind and of body.”
In August 1895, a cyclist named Ann Strong caused a stir when she compared the value of a bicycle to that of a husband in the Minneapolis Tribune.
Politicians, soldiers, business leaders, and even the leading athletes in the new sports of baseball and football were all men.
Now the bicycle brought a taste of independence to women on a very personal level, and some of them took the opportunity to express their discontent with old traditions and expectations.
Bicycle manufacturers retooled their factories to build them [automobiles] and bicycle repair shops installed gasoline tanks to service them.

Answer 1

Selected excerpts: 1, 2, and 4.

Brief reasons:
- "The bicycle," she wrote... — directly links bicycling to new ideas about women's courage, self-respect, and independence.
- Ann Strong comparing a bicycle to a husband — shows women publicly questioning traditional marital roles and expectations.
- "Now the bicycle brought a taste of independence..." — explicitly describes women using bicycles to reject old traditions and assert new freedoms.

Not selected:
- "Politicians, soldiers, business leaders..." — describes existing male domination but does not itself show the shift in values.
- "Bicycle manufacturers retooled..." — describes technological/economic change, not social values.