Homework 35 - Chapter 31: An Era of Social Change
Read pages 972 to 993. Answer the questions.
Section 1: Latinos and Native Americans Seek Equality
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Who was Cesar Chavez?
What did Jessie Cruz tell farm workers?
What nations do Latinos come from?
Why is it actually incorrect to label Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, etc Latinos?
What is a barrio?
What did Latinos demand in the 1960s?
What is the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee?
Why is Cesar Chavez perhaps the most important Latino leader of the 1960s?
Why did Mexican Americans call themselves Chicanos?
What is La Raza Unida?
What problems afflicted Native Americans in the 1960s?
What did American Indian leaders want from the government?
What is the American Indian Movement?
Who is Ben Nighthorse Campbell?
What militant actions did AIM take in the 1970s?
What important victories did American Indians win from the government in the 1970s?
Section 2: Women Fight for Equality
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Who is Betty Friedan?
What did she stress in her book?
What is feminism?
What had happened to women in the workplace during the 1950s?
What roll did women play in the civil rights movement and the anti war movement?
What is The Feminine Mystique?
What is the National Organization for Women?
What is the purpose of this group?
Who is Gloria Steinem?
What magazine did she start?
Why is she an important figure in women’s history?
What did Congress do to guarantee women’s inclusion into sports and academics?
What did the court case Roe v. Wade decide?
Why is this a landmark in women’s rights history?
Why does this ruling divide America to this day?
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Why did it never pass?
What is the legacy of the Feminist Movement?
Section 3: Culture and Counter Culture
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What did Alex Forman observe about life in San Francisco?
What is counterculture?
Why is it still popular?
What did Tim Leary mean when he said, “tune in, turn on, drop out”
What is LSD?
What is a hippie?
Why were drugs and narcotics embraced by many young people?
What is Haight Ashbury?
What led to the decline of Flower Power and the hippies?
How did the Beatles change the music scene forever?
What made Woodstock a landmark event?
How did American attitudes about literature, violence, and sex change?
How did the conservatives react to counterculture?
What does the rise and fall of counter culture say about America?