Extract the Facts, Jack!
SSUSH24
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
a. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics, including
sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing composition.
b. Describe the National Organization of Women and the origins and
goals of the modern women’s movement.
c. Analyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.
d. Analyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ movement.
SSUSH 24a
All of the following were tactics of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) EXCEPT
Sit-ins at lunch counters
March from Selma to Montgomery, AL
for voting rights
Lowndes County, AL – a stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan
Population: 81% Black, 19% white.
Voter registration: Blacks 0, whites 2240 (118%)
voter registration drive
Preaching a sermon of freedom on a
cold winter day. From left, John
Lewis of SNCC (kneeling), Hosea
Williams of SCLC (kneeling), and
Andy Young of SCLC (standing).
Brown Chapel, movement
headquarters, is in the background.
met with violence in Selma
SSUSH 24a
All of the following were tactics of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) EXCEPT
A. organizing sit-ins where segregation was very public
B. working for voter registration in the South
C. bombing of Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin
D. working with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
used the tactic of sit-ins, worked for voter registration in the
South, and worked with the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC).
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
a. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) tactics, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing
composition.
b. Describe the National Organization of Women and the
origins and goals of the modern women’s movement.
c. Analyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.
d. Analyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ movement.
SSUSH 24b
What has been an ongoing goal of the modern women’s movement?
SSUSH 24b
What has been an ongoing goal of the modern women’s movement?
A. the possibility of labor union membership for women
B. attaining voting rights
C. equal pay and opportunity for women
D. election of the first woman to Congress
An ongoing goal of the modern
women’s movement has been equal
pay and opportunity for women.
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
a. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) tactics, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing
composition.
b. Describe the National Organization of Women and the origins and
goals of the modern women’s movement.
c. Analyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.
d. Analyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ movement.
SSUSH 24c
What was a turning point in the anti-Vietnam War movement?
SSUSH 24c
What was a turning point in the anti-Vietnam War movement?
A. the killing of four student protestors at Kent State
B. the election of President Nixon
C. the assassination of President Kennedy
D. the Democratic National Convention
The killing of four
student protestors at
Kent State was a turning
point in the antiVietnam War movement.
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
a. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) tactics, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing
composition.
b. Describe the National Organization of Women and the origins and
goals of the modern women’s movement.
c. Analyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.
d. Analyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’
movement.
SSUSH 24d
Boycotts of farm produce organized by César Chavez and the United Farm
Workers led to
SSUSH 24d
Boycotts of farm produce organized by César Chavez and the United Farm
Workers led to
A. extended work hours for union members
B. higher wages for migrant workers
C. abandonment of farmer unions
D. federal legislation barring farm boycotts
Boycotts of farm produce
organized by César Chavez
and the United Farm
Workers led to higher
wages for migrant
workers.
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
e. Explain Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, Earth Day, the
creation of the EPA, and the modern environmentalist
movement.
f. Describe the rise of the conservative movement as seen in the
presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater (1964) and the election of
Richard M. Nixon (1968).
SSUSH 24e
What sparked the environmentalist movement?
SSUSH 24e
What sparked the environmentalist movement?
A. creation of the Environmental Protection Agency
B. Earth Day
C. publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
D. the efforts of Johnson’s Great Society
The publication of Rachel
Carson’s Silent Spring sparked
the environmentalist movement.
“Pesticides poison not
only pests, she says, but
also humans, wildlife, the
soil, food and water.”
SSUSH24 – The student will analyze the impact of social
change movements and organizations of the 1960’s.
e. Explain Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, Earth Day, the creation of
the EPA, and the modern environmentalist movement.
f. Describe the rise of the conservative movement as seen in
the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater (1964) and
the election of Richard M. Nixon (1968).
SSUSH 24f
The election of Richard Nixon indicated
“I call upon the great silent majority
of my fellow Americans to help me.”
SSUSH 24f
The election of Richard Nixon indicated
A. the rise of the conservative movement
B. an expansion of social programs
C. the stall of foreign relations with China
D. an effort by Republicans to unseat Nixon
The election of Richard Nixon indicated
the rise of the conservative movement.
Nixon started off with a huge lead over his
Democratic opponent, Vice-President Hubert
Humphrey. The Democrats were deeply divided
over the Vietnam War and Humphrey’s nomination
had been tarnished by the bloody televised riots at
the Democratic convention in Chicago. Barring
some disaster, Nixon was a sure winner.