Baby Boomers and the Transformation of American Society Flashcards
Conservative movement with the Republican Party that opposd the loveral political and social reforms of the 1960s. This demanded less govt intervention in the economy and a return to traditional values
New Right
American writers, poets, and artists in the 1950s who rejected traditional middle class values and championed nonconformity and sexual experimentation
Beats
Supreme court decision that said medical school students could not be admitted by racial quotas, although race could be considered for admission. The decision represented a partail victory for what conseratives thought was reverse discrimination against whites
Bakke v. University of California 1978
A New Right activist who protested against the womens rights movement saying it undermined tradition and the natural gender division of labor. He was representative of the conservative backlash against the changes of the 1960s
Phyllis Schlafly
Referendum in California that slashed loval property taxes. Marked the beginning of a conservative movemnt to cut taxes throughout the nation
Proposition 13 1978
Type of popular music that emerged in the mid 1950s from an early type of music known as rhythm and blues
rock and roll
Richard Nixons plan to bring southerners into the Republican party by appointing white southerners to the Supreme court and resisting the policy of busing to achieve integration
Southern Strategy
Sudden increase in the birth rate that occured in the US after WWII and lasted roughly until 1964
Baby boom
Anti abortion movemnt that favored a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion
Right to Life Movement
Supreme Court ruling that women have an unrestricted right to choode an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. The ruling caused a conservaitive reaction against what was perceied as activist judges
Roe v. Wade 1973
Scandal in the Nixon administration that began with break in at the Democratic Naitonal Committee headquarters at the Watergate Office Building in DC. President Nixons role in the cover up of justice led to his resignation in 1974
Watergate 1972
Free rock concert in NY that attracted 400,000 becoming an expression of the counterculture
woodstock 1969
Youth movment of the 1960s that rejected the competitiveness and materialism of American society, searching instead for peace, love, and freedom
counterculture (hippies)
