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Chapter 8: Social Movements

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz


This activity contains 9 questions.

	The women's rights movement got its start with women's participation in the abolitionist movement.    True  False

	Women's rights organizations were not formed until after World War II.    True  False

	Unconventional tactics by women's organizations, and the antagonistic response to them by authorities, were instrumental in shifting public opinion in favor of an amendment to assure women's right to vote.    True  False

	Social movements are a means for those outside the mainstream to gain a hearing in the political process.    True  False

	All things considered, social movements damage rather than contribute to democracy.    True  False

	Sometimes it takes a social movement to overcome the anti-majoritarian aspects of our constitutional system.    True  False

	The existence of social distress is both necessary and sufficient for the rise of social movements.    True  False

	The most effective tool of the civil rights movement was violence.    True  False

	Social movements committed to a radical change in the society or economy often face repression of one kind or another.    True  False

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