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AP U.S. History Exam 2.47. What movement was the excerpt referring to?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Beat movement,

00:07

a relentless devotion to rhythm.

00:10

Yeah, hey. Sing it, Gloria.

00:11

All right, check out this excerpt. Here we go.

00:13

"This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

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Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences,

00:20

have been the primary ways of organizing human beings

00:23

into superior and inferior groups,

00:25

and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

00:29

We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles

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other than those chosen, or those earned.

00:34

We are really talking about humanism."

00:36

Gloria Steinem, right there. All right.

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And the question:

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What movement was the excerpt referring to?

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And here are the potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

00:47

All right, well in the excerpt, Gloria Steinem -

00:49

this woman right here with our CEO, yep, that's her -

00:52

writes that "sex and race, because they are easy,

00:55

visible differences,

00:56

have been the primary ways of organizing

00:59

human beings into superior and inferior groups."

01:02

So let's see which answer describes the movement that united

01:05

these differences into a moving force for change.

01:09

Does this excerpt refer to B -

01:11

Beat movement?

01:12

Hmm. Well, the Beat movement dealt primarily with

01:15

the culture surrounding a generation of writers in the 1950s.

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Uh, so, think more poetry than politics.

01:22

All right, is Gloria Steinem writing about the C - suffrage movement?

01:25

Well, not quite. The suffrage movement succeeded in

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gaining women the right to vote

01:30

50 years earlier,

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so that's out of C.

01:33

Could Steinem be describing the D - conservative movement?

01:37

Well, hmm. Activists like Steinem were fighting against conservatives,

01:41

which often opposed granting equal constitutional rights

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to women. So D is dead in the water.

01:47

And that means Steinem was speaking in support of A -

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the feminist movement.

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Gloria Steinem was well known for her leadership during the feminist movement.

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And during the 1970s and 80s she fought hard

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for the level of equality described in the excerpt.

02:01

So A is the right answer.

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The feminist movement made a point of challenging the nation's

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founding fathers, hoping to prove that it wasn't just men who were

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created equal.

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[ woo! ]

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