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Ch 23 SS2 Flashcards

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This person organized Mexican Farm workers

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Cesar Chavez

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This is the countries poorest ethnic group

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Native Americans

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What union did Cesar Chavez help create?,

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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

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What is the A.I.M.?

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American Indian Movement

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This Latino group is now the majority in Miami

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Cuban

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She wrote the feminine mystique

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Betty Friedan

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What is NOW?

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National Organization for Women

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What is the E.R.A.?,

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Equal Rights Amendment

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the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men

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feminism

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This Supreme Court case allowed women to get an abortion

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Roe vs Wade

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The world’s Hippie Capital

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Haight-Asbury

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This band helped propel rock n’ roll into the mainstream?

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The Beatles

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Made up of mostly white-middle class youths, this group had grown deeply disillusioned with American society

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counterculture

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Many people in the counter culture called for an Age of ___________

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Aquarius

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Many hippies tried to “expand their minds” with this drug?

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LSD

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What event permanently divided the Women’s Movement?

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Roe vs Wade

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23-1 was primarily about what two minority groups?,

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Native Americans and Latinos

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What type of jobs did many Latinos who lived in the SW U.S. have?

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Farm workers

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Why were many women against the ERA?

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Impact on families, end certain protections for women, draft women

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This coalition of social conservatives- which focus on social, cultural, and moral issues was called

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the new right

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what was the “glass ceiling”?

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invisible, but real, resistance to promoting women into top positions
they could see what they could achieve, but could never get there because of their gender

22
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why did Woodstock end?

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drug culture took it down

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what types of people attended woodstock?

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white, middle class, college students (mainly counterculture)

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Who was Cesar chavez?

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Mexican American farm worker who wanted to improve conditions for Mexican American farmers.

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what did Cesar Chavez do?

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He organized the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and used nonviolence to create a nationwide grape company boycott so the union would be recognized. (wanted better conditions and higher wages)

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Who were the UFWOC?

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Farm workers who used nonviolence

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What did the UFWOC do to earn higher wages?

Was it successful?

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boycotted the California grape company using nonviolence. sent farm workers across the country to convince supermarkets and shoppers not to buy Cali grapes
Yes, guaranteed higher wages and other benefits long denied them

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How did self-determination apply to the actions taken by native tribes in 1961?

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In 1961, representatives from 61 NA groups met in chicago and drafted the Declaration of Indian Purpose, which stressed the determination of Native Americans to “choose our own way of life”
Called for an end to the termination program in favor of new policies designed to create economic opportunities for NA on their reservations

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What was the purpose of AIM?

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American Indian Movement
Young native americans were dissatisfied with the slow pace of reform, made to protect the rights of large Native American populations

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What actions were taken by AIM?

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marched in Washington DC to protest the US govts treaty violations throughout history, destroyed records and caused 2 mil in property damage
Seized Wounded Knee and took hostages, 2 NA deaths

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What was the Feminine Mystique about?

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it captured the discontent that many women were feeling
helped to galvanize women across the country and work together for change
inspired by the anti war movement and civil rights

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What did the Feminine Mystique help to create?

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the NOW

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what was the purpose of NOW?

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to actively pursue the goals of women

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What did NOW accomplish?

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Created more child-care facilities
Ban on gender discrimination in hiring (More educational opportunities)
Protested the 1968 Miss America Pageant

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Phyllis Schlafly’s role in the women’s movement of the 1960s?

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Conservative, along with conservative religious groups, political organizations, and many anti-feminists, felt that the ERA would lead to “a parade of horribles,” such as the drafting of women, end of laws protecting homemakers, the end of a husbands responsibility to provide for his fam, and same sex marriage.

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What did the ERA guarantee?

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that both men and women would enjoy the same rights and protections under the law
scared many people

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Did the ERA pass? why or why not?

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no because many people were scared that it would cause a parade of horribles (the roles of specific gender would not be fulfilled)

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What factors weakened the counterculture movement?

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taking drugs like LSD
not having a clean cut fashion
anti war
rebellion

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who was involved in the counterculture movement?

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white middle-class youths, hippies

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what was blamed for the increased permissiveness in society?

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moral decay

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The New Right

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in order to combat the ERA and the pro-abortion supporters, conservatives built a new “pro-family” movement
This coalition of social conservatives- which focus on social, cultural, and moral issues

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did the new right have an influence on reagans campaign to become president?

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yes

43
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Why didnt the new woodstock of 94 and 99 work?

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because of expectations for it to work again

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What jobs were available to women?

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social worker, teaching, nurses, retail sales, clerical work (all paid poorly)
women were paid less than men who do the same jobs anyway

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How were Native Americans struggling for equality?

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poorest Americans
high unemployment
alcoholism
health problems

46
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What did the Native Americans regain?

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LAND

47
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Latinos were braceros. what are those?

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temporary laborers

48
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where did latinos come from ?

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mexico
cuba
puerto rico
caribbean islands
central & south america

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