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True/False Quiz



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Question 1.
The women's rights movement got its start with women's participation in the abolitionist movement.

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Question 2.
Women's rights organizations were not formed until after World War II.

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Question 3.
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.

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Question 4.
Social movements are a means for those outside the mainstream to gain a hearing in the political process.

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Question 5.
All things considered, social movements damage rather than contribute to democracy.

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Question 6.
Sometimes it takes a social movement to overcome the anti-majoritarian aspects of our constitutional system.

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Question 7.
The existence of social distress is both necessary and sufficient for the rise of social movements.

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Question 8.
The most effective tool of the civil rights movement was violence.

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Question 9.
Social movements committed to a radical change in the society or economy often face repression of one kind or another.

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