Chapter 31

Question 0

I. Counterculture

Answer 0

A. Movement made up of mostly white, middle and upperclass college youth who had grown disillusioned with the war and injustices in America
B. Turned their backs on traditional America and tried to est a society based on peace and love- "Do your own thing" & "If it feels good do it"

Question 1

I. Womens Liberation Movement

Answer 1

A. Betty Friedan- leader in Womens Lib Movement. Wrote:The Feminine Mystique
B. Feminism- belief that women should have same economic political and social opportunities as men
C. Equal Rights Amendment- to guarantee that both men and women should enjoy the same rights and protection under the law

Question 2

III. Timothy Leary

Answer 2

A. Harvard Psychology professor
B. “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out”
C. Tens of thousands of young people left school, home, and work to create a perfect community

Question 3

IV. Hippie Culture

Answer 3

A. Four things that sum it up:
   1. Outrageous Clothing
   2. Rock n' Roll
   3. Sexual Freedom
   4. Drugs
B. Haight-Ashbury
   1. San Francisco
   2. Hippie capital of the world
C. Decline of the movement
   1. Violence and disillusionment
   2. drug overdoses (jimmy hendrix)
   3. Hippies ended up collecting welfare from the societies they rejected

Question 4

V. How Hippies Changed the Culture

Answer 4

A. Art
B. Rock Music
   1. The Beatles (from Britian)
   2. Woodstock- concert in upstate NY
C. The sin of the 60s 
   1. Sexual  Revolution
   2. Do your own thing philosophy

Question 5

VI. Conservative Response

Answer 5

A. Richard Nixons elected

B. The hippie lifestyle is noted as revolutionary terrorism