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

The year 1848 saw major statements issued that energized

During the Victorian Period of the 1800s, no one challenged the accepted standard of a women's place in the home with her children.

The Environmental Justice Movement contends that environmental hazards are one of the few things that affect rich and poor equally.

What are the elements of national happiness and well-being? How are these related to social inequality?

Sinclair's The Jungle and Norris's The Octopus exposed dangerous working conditions in meat packing and railroad building.

Betty Friedan argued that the "feminine mystique" of the 1950s was

Abraham Lincoln supported slavery before he became president.

In the 1850s, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn slavery but argued that nonetheless the rights of African American slaves as U.S. citizens must be respected.

Sociologists refer to people coming together in organized and spontaneous demonstrations as "collective action."

U.S. women did not gain the right to vote nationally until 1920.

The women's suffrage movement began with:

Given its long history of valuing work, the United States welcomed the first labor unions and attempts to organize workers.

How are issues of gender, poverty, racism, human rights, and the environment intertwined? What social movements have arisen to address these issues, and how are they interrelated?

Labor organizing lost ground during the

Student-led campus boycotts across the United States in 1999 and 2000 targeted

The 1946 Taft-Hartley Act sought to

Gandhi's ideas on nonviolent social action inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and the original

The doctrine of "separate but equal" was struck down in:

Organized labor's influence in national elections has continued to grow.

How have the labor movement, the women's movement, and the civil rights movement been intertwined in the last 150 years of U.S. history?