What Is Important About the Stonewall Riot of 1969

question 98

Multiple Choice

What is important about the Stonewall Riot of 1969?

• A) Politicians paraded through the streets of San Francisco in support of gay rights.
• B) Shopkeepers denied service to gays, which resulted in active resistance from the gay community.
• C) The gay community resisted police brutality during a raid at a New York bar.
• D) Lesbians and gays went on the attack against each other.

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Definitions:

Elastic Demand

Reflects how the quantity demanded of a good or service changes in response to a change in price; high elasticity indicates demand is highly sensitive to price changes.

Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity of that good consumers are willing and able to buy.

Perfectly Elastic

A situation in economic theory where the quantity demanded or supplied responds infinitely to changes in price.

Perfectly Inelastic

A situation in which the demand for a good or service does not change in response to changes in price.