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

Question 1

Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Rodham Clinton both advanced ideas associated with

A) Marxist feminism
B) radical feminism
C) liberal reform feminism
D) backlash feminism

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The women's suffrage movement began with:

A) the Constitutional Convention of 1789
B) the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848
C) the New York Riots of 1863
D) the National Organization for Women in 1964

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Compared to Europe and Canada, the United States has

A) a less unionized workforce
B) a more unionized workforce
C) more women in its unions
D) more laws protecting the right to strike

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The year 1848 saw major statements issued that energized

A) the labor, women's, and abolitionist movements
B) the Whigs, Federalists and Democrats
C) student movements in the United States, France, and Mexico
D) a major federal antipoverty program

Question 5

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

A) 1776 with the Declaration of Independence
B) 1789 with the Constitution
C) 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation
D) 1920 with the 19^th Amendment

Question 6

Labor organizing lost ground during the

A) Roosevelt New Deal era
B) nationwide progressive movement
C) rise to influence of muckraking journalists
D) 1920s Red Scares

Question 7

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

A) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
B) Black Panthers
C) Southerners for Peace and Non-violence (SPNV)
D) followers of Malcolm X

Question 8

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

A) aging men
B) small children
C) young women
D) illegal aliens

Question 9

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

A) the minimum wage
B) the earned income tax credit
C) NAFTA and free trade
D) universal healthcare

Question 10

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

A) Great Britain and France
B) India and Pakistan
C) Canada and Australia
D) South Africa

Question 11

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

A) 1856, Dred Scott decision
B) 1896, Plessy vs. Ferguson
C) 1977, UC Regents vs. Bakke
D) 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 12

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

A) polluting sport utility vehicles
B) tropical wood products
C) nonunion meat-packing firms
D) clothing and shoe manufacturers

Question 13

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

A) Bacon's Rebellion
B) the Dred Scott Decision
C) the emancipation proclamation
D) Jim Crow laws

Question 14

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

A) John Brown
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Booker T. Washington
D) Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 15

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

A) Aggrieved Workers of the World (AWW)
B) American Federation of Labor (AFL)
C) Knights of Columbus (KOC)
D) Pinkerton Labor Organization (PLO)

Question 16

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

A) Switzerland
B) New Zealand
C) Great Britain
D) Mexico

Question 17

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

A) intentionally undermining decades of social change
B) giving women new freedoms never before experienced
C) a way women had found to exert power in spite of male-imposed limitations
D) the hallmark of the new liberated modern woman

Question 18

The 1946 Taft-Hartley Act sought to

A) reduce union power and make union leaders liable for damages
B) bolster the right of unions to call strikes
C) prevent the hiring of permanent replacements for striking workers
D) make union organizing an illegal activity

Question 19

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

A) her husband, the newly domestic man
B) an array of time-saving appliances
C) servants, laborers, and possibly slaves
D) changing laws that freed her from home duties

Question 20

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

A) Poor People's Movement
B) Rainbow Coalition
C) La Raza Movement
D) Alcatraz Island sit-in

Question 21

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.

Question 22

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

Question 23

List three countries of vary different economic levels that have all been noted for high levels of national happiness and well-being.

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

Those that live near toxic waste and unsafe environments are often

A) in major cities of the Northeastern United States
B) poor and nonwhite
C) suburbanites who believe they are safe
D) wealthy consumers whose lifestyles create dangerous wastes

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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?

Question 38

Abraham Lincoln supported slavery before he became president.

Question 39

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?

Question 40

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.

Question 41

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