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Why did some groups living in America give women a significant amount of power?


They had a tradition of matrilineal culture.


They were urban, upper-middle-class families.


They belonged to progressive reform movements.


They had entered the industrial workforce.

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They had a tradition of matrilineal culture.

In many Native American societies descent and inheritance passed through the mother's line, and women (e.g., Iroquois clan mothers) held important decision-making and leadership roles.