This stage of the social movement is seen when both the "prophets and intellectuals" join with the agitators and they start to "stir things up".

The stage is known as Social Unrest.

Social unrest denotes the condition of collective dissatisfaction with the political system which can manifest itself into the unconventional form of protest behavior. In the state of social unrest prophets and intellectuals become hostile towards existing policies and join into the mass groups to take initiatives for better management of public safety and maintenance of law and orders an across the city.

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.