Exam 12: Challenging the System: Social Movements in a Global Age

In the 1990s and following, consumer activism began to target overseas sweatshops.

The Great Depression of the 1930s meant the end of most U.S. labor unions.

What three intertwined social justice movements have challenged the U.S. political system since the 1800s?

The great mulatto abolitionist and antislavery lecturer who became a friend and confidante of Lincoln and an advocate of an integrated America was

Following the 13^th Amendment, the rights and political standing of African Americans in the U.S. South gradually improved through the 1880s and 1890s.

Child labor, once a major issue in the United States and Japan, is now a center of controversy in

The post-Civil War advancement of African Americans was soon reversed by

Women gained the right to vote nationally in the United States in

As the American labor movement grew, many local craft unions joined together to form the

In what ways have social movements moved from the national to the international level? Give examples of some of these.

Union leaders supported Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns but opposed his stance on

According to Stephanie Coontz, the Victorian homemaker with a large home was assisted to a large extent, directly or indirectly, in her tasks by:

Compared to Europe and Canada, the United States has

Most of the workers killed in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, like many turn-of-the-century textile workers were

Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Rodham Clinton both advanced ideas associated with

In its decision in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that separate is inherently unequal."

The first nation to give women the right to vote in national elections was

Martin Luther King Jr.'s last great initiative before his assassination was the

Child labor, controversial in South Asia, was never used in the United States or Japan.

Those that live near toxic waste and unsafe environments are often