Chapter 21 – An Era of protest and change
Chapter 22 – A CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE 1968-1980
Chapter 21.2 – THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
*The causes, effects, and main figures of the women’s movement in the chart below.
THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
CAUSES
▪ Civil rights movement inspires
women’s movement.
▪ Discrimination against women.
PROPONENTS/OPPONENTS
▪ Pro: Betty Friedan
▪ Pro: Gloria Steinem
EFFECTS
▪ No legal discrimination based on
gender.
▪ Legal Right to abortion.
▪ Op: Phyllis Schlafly
▪ Unsatisfying roles.
▪ Increased professional
opportunities for women.
▪ Workforce limitations and
discrimination.
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
What led to the rise of the The civil rights movement and the earlier women’s suffrage movement inspired the
women’s movement, and
women’s movement. Women gained legal rights and more rights and protections in
what impact did it have on the workplace.
American society?
Chapter 21.3 – THE RIGHTS REVOLUTION EXPANDS
*Venn diagram below to compare and contrast the Latino and Native American rights movements.
Latinos
Native Americans
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▪ Worked to create opportunities
▪ Fought for better education
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▪ Borrowed tactics
from civil rights
movement
▪ Held grape boycott
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Causes of expanding rights for consumers and those with disabilities.
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▪ Sought self-government
▪ Sought improved living conditions
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▪ Worked for land, mineral,
and water rights.
▪
CONSUMER ADVOCACY
DISABLED ADVOCACY
▪ Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed.
▪ Korean and Vietnam Veterans
▪ National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (1966)
▪ President Kennedy’s Panel on Mental Retardation
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GROWING MOVEMENTS EXPAND RIGHTS
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
How did the rights
Migrant farm workers won collective bargaining rights in some states; Latinos worked
movements of the 1960s
to gain better political representation; Native Americans fought to secure legal rights
and 1970s expand rights
and regain land; and Americans learned to change their perceptions of people with
for diverse groups of
disabilities.
Americans?
Chapter 22 – A CRISIS IN CONFIDENCE 1968-1980
Chapter 22.1 – NIXON AND THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
Record Nixon’s major domestic policies and goals in the chart below.
NIXON’S DOMESTIC POLICIES AND STRATEGIES
NEW FEDERALISM
SOUTHERN STRATEGY
▪ Revenue Sharing
▪ Nominates conservative southerners to federal courts
▪ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ▪ Criticizes court-ordered busing
▪ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
▪ Initiates Philadelphia Plan
▪ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The causes and effects of industrialization on the chart below.
WATERGATE CRISIS
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CAUSES
▪ Break-in at Democratic Party Headquarters.
▪ Senate investigation.
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EFFECTS
▪ Connections revealed between burglars and White
House.
▪ Nixon denies wrongdoing.
▪ Washington Post reporters reveal Watergate to public.
▪ President Nixon keeps secret tapes of Oval Office
conversations.
▪ Supreme Court in United States v. Nixon rules that
Nixon must surrender tapes.
▪ Nixon refuses to turn over tapes to investigators.
▪ Missing conversations prompt Judiciary Committee to
recommend impeachment.
▪ Nixon resigns.
▪ Congress enacts reforms to prevent abuses of power.
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
What events led to Richard Burglars who broke into Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel had
Nixon’s resignation as
connections to Nixon’s reelection committee. Nixon tried to cover up the crime.
President in 1974?
Congress investigated and was about to start impeachment proceedings, when Nixon
chose to resign instead.
Chapter 22.2 – THE FORD AND CARTER YEARS
Social problems of the era and their impact on American society.
I. GERALD FORD’S PRESIDENCY
A. Major Domestic Issues
1. Attempts to restore confidence in government
2. Selects Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President
3. Pardons Richard Nixon
4. Economic policies result in stagflation
II. JIMMY CARTER’S PRESIDENCY
A. As a Washington Outsider He has Trouble Getting Bills through Congress
B. Grants Amnesty to Americans Who Evaded the Vietnam Draft
C. Calls on Americans to Conserve Energy
D. Raises Interest Rates to Break Inflation
III. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES IN THE 1970s
A. American Migration Patterns Continue
B. Immigrants from Latin America and Asia Change Demographics
C. Changes in the Family Continue
D. Americans Become Absorbed with Self-Improvement
E. Resurgence of Fundamental Christianity
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
What accounted for the
Migration of Americans to the Sunbelt; influx of immigrants from Latin America and
changes in American
Southeast Asia; coming of age of the “Me Generation”; events such as Watergate;
attitudes during the 1970s? strengthening of conservative fundamentalist Christianity.
Chapter 22.3 – FOREIGN POLICY TROUBLES
The main ideas and details about the foreign policies of Ford and Carter.
SALT II Talks
GERALD FORD
Noninvolvement in
Cambodia and
South Vietnam
Helsinki Accords
U.S. FOREIGN
POLICY
Human Rights
Iran Hostage Crisis
JIMMY CARTER
Sanctions on
Soviets
Returned Panama
Canal Zone to
Panama
Camp David
Accords
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
What were the goals of
Ford: continue pursuing détente with the Soviet Union and China and pursue nonAmerican foreign policy
involvement in Southeast Asia. Carter was guided by concern for human rights,
during the Ford and Carter instead of Cold War competition. Ford was probably more successful than was Carter,
years, and how successful who, in taking a stand on human rights, negatively affected U.S.–Soviet relations.
were Ford’s and Carter’s
Carter also experienced mixed results in Latin America. In the Middle East, he
policies?
brokered the Camp David Accords, but then had to face the Iranian hostage crisis.