The Era of Change and Protests (1960s-1980s)
SSUSH24 The student will analyze the impact of social change movements and organizations of the 1960s.
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.
e. Explain Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, Earth Day, the creation of the EPA, and the modern environmentalist
movement.
Station 1: The Counterculture (pg. 1018)
1. Graffiti the photo with images that you associate with the hippie movement.
2. What factors influenced the rise of the counterculture? Include the impact of the anti-Vietnam
movement and the term “generational gap”. ________________________________________________
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3. What was Woodstock? _______________________________________________________________
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4. What assumptions about mainstream culture were made by the counterculture? ________________
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Station 2: The Women’s Rights Movement (pg. 1022)
1. Define feminism. _____________________________________________________________________
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2. Why are the 1960s sometimes called the “2nd Wave of Feminism”? ____________________________
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3. Explain the role of Betty Freidan in the Women’s Rights Movement. Include the role of NOW and the
proposed Equal Rights Amendment. _______________________________________________________
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4. Using the “Comparing Viewpoints” on page 1025, analyze the views of both Phyllis Schlafly and Gloria
Steinem. Organize their different outlooks on the role of women in society in a VENN diagram.
Schlafly
Steinem
5. What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade? Do you agree or disagree with this decision.
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Station 3 : The Rights Revolution Expands (pg. 1028)
1. Explain one push and one pull factor that caused the Latino population in the US to surge post-WWI.
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2. Explain Cesar Chavez’s role in the equal rights movement. Include his role in the United Farm
Workers (UFW).
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3. ANALYZE THE QUOTE: What message do you think Cesar Chavez was sending to many immigrant
workers in the United States through his words below?
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to
read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not
afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
- Cesar Chavez
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Station 4: The Environmental Movement (pg. 1034)
1. Explain the impact of Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring”.
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2. What was the purpose for the creation of Earth Day? _______________________________________
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3. What is the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established by President Nixon in
1970? _______________________________________________________________________________
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4. Explain the events at 3 Mile Island in March 1979. How do you think this event affected the
environmental movement? ______________________________________________________________
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