Baby Boomers and the Transformation of American Society

Question 1

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

Answer 1

New Right

Question 2

American writers, poets, and artists in the 1950s who rejected traditional middle class values and championed nonconformity and sexual experimentation

Answer 2

Beats

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Bakke v. University of California 1978

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Phyllis Schlafly

Question 5

Referendum in California that slashed loval property taxes. Marked the beginning of a conservative movemnt to cut taxes throughout the nation

Answer 5

Proposition 13 1978

Question 6

Type of popular music that emerged in the mid 1950s from an early type of music known as rhythm and blues

Answer 6

rock and roll

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Southern Strategy

Question 8

Sudden increase in the birth rate that occured in the US after WWII and lasted roughly until 1964

Answer 8

Baby boom

Question 9

Anti abortion movemnt that favored a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion

Answer 9

Right to Life Movement

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Roe v. Wade 1973

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Watergate 1972

Question 12

Free rock concert in NY that attracted 400,000 becoming an expression of the counterculture

Answer 12

woodstock 1969

Question 13

Youth movment of the 1960s that rejected the competitiveness and materialism of American society, searching instead for peace, love, and freedom

Answer 13

counterculture (hippies)