APUSH Chapter 32 Part 3

Question 1

Feminism

Answer 1

Push for political, social, and economic equality for men and women
AKA women’s liberation

Question 2

Stereotypes

Answer 2

Too emotional for high stressed jobs
Better suited for homemaking
Sex objects

Question 3

National Organization for Women

Answer 3

NOW 1966
Women frustrated by govt lack of enforcement CR Act
Form organization to pressure govt
Think NAACP for women
Betty Friedan (1st presiden)
Goals, destroy stereotypes, pass equal rights amendment, and discrimination

Question 4

1968 Miss America Pageant

Answer 4

Protestors claim exploitation of women
Woman’s value is not tied to her physical appearance
Pageant is racist, sexist, capitalistic, agist

Question 5

Title IX

Answer 5

1972
Congress passes legislation
Prohibits sex discrimination in any federally assisted ed program
Focus on athletics
Money must be appropriated for women’s activities
Create sthe Title IX generation
Matures by century’s end, professional women’s sports

Question 6

The Battle of the Stars (1973)

Answer 6

Male chauvinist Bobby Riggs (55) challenges Billie Jean King (30) to a tennis match
King beats Riggs in straight sets

Question 7

Opposition to women’s movements

Answer 7

Passed by congress
Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged by the US on any state on account of sex
Endorsed by Nixon and carter
Ratifies by 38 states

Question 8

Opposition to women’s movement

Answer 8

Conservative groups 
Phylllis Shafly 
ERA will destroy families 
Gender equality is unnatural 
They are a silent majority 
Women in military, single bathrooms 
ERA dies in 1982, 3 states short

Question 9

Roe v wade

Answer 9

1973
Supreme Court decision which assured women’s right to an abrogation
Court rules that the right to terminate a pregnancy is protected by constitutional right to privacy
Most states still have many restrictions

Question 10

Women make progress in 1980s

Answer 10

Sandra Day O’Connor
1st female SC justice
Geraldine Ferraro (1st female VP candidate)

Question 11

Current Supreme Court

Answer 11

Ruth Nader Ginsburg. , Sonja Sotomeyor, Elena Kagan

Question 12

Equal employment today

Answer 12

Glass ceiling

Pink collar jobs

Question 13

Americans w Disabilities Act

Answer 13

1990

Question 14

American Indian Movement

Answer 14

Founded 1968
Russell means leads many protestors in 70s
Occupation of wounded kne and Alcatraz
US v wheeler 1978
Court rules that tribes are sovereign groups subject to will of congress, but jot states