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Question 1

Progressivism

Answer 1

Reform movement at the end of the 19th Century in reaction to the
Industrialization and the problems of the Gilded Age. It called for
government activities against corruption and social misery (e.g.
muckraking journalism) and for more efficiency in all areas of
society.

Question 2

WPA Photography

Answer 2

Documentary photography sponsored by the Roosevelt
Administration in the New Deal through the Works Progress
Administration. Examples are Lange’s Migrant Mother and works
by Walter Evans and others.

Question 3

Social Realism

Answer 3

A return to realist techniques within modernist literature in order to
explore questions of poverty, history, middle class life etc.
Examples are the works of Steinbeck, Lewis and Faulkner.

Question 4

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 4

African American protest movement led by Martin Luther King and
others. It insisted in non-violent action and civil disobedience and
organized demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins and legal interventions.

Question 5

Counterculture

Answer 5

Youth Movement in the 1960s inspired by the civil rights
movement, opposing militarism (Vietnam), technocracy,
bureaucracy, conformism. It was influenced by philosophy,
psychoanalysis and Buddhism.

Question 6

Black Panther Party

Answer 6

Militant African American organization founded in Oakland, CA,
inspired by Malcolm X and Marxism. The Panthers patrolled with
arms and organized community social programs (breakfasts,
libraries etc.). It was discredited and destroyed by the FBI.