Chapter 31 Flashcards
Where did most of California’s population growth in the 1960s occur?
Migrations from other states.
Trace the rise and fall of radicalism during the 1960s. What types of people were the radicals, and what issues did they address? What could be labeled “roots of revolt” or its broader symptoms during the 1960s?
… Baby boomers were coming of age. School overcrowding, including colleges. Civil rights movement: moral issue and new protest techniques. Hippie counterculture. Anti-war movement. “New Left.”
What was the essential issue in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM)? What specific incident sparked the FSM?
Banned political activism at the edge of the campus. Arrest of Jack Weinberg.
What was the “counterculture”? When was the hippie movement most popular? What was the foremost reason for the decline of student radicalism in the early ’70s?
Flourished in Haight-Ashbury in SF. Rock music & drug use united youth and seemed to encourage rebellion against authorities. Peaked during mid-to-late 1960s & early ’70s - time of greatest involvement in Vietnam war. Winding down of Vietnam War under Pres. Nixon. End of draft, 1973. Suffrage for 18-year-olds, 1971, 26th amendment. Recession & inflation of the 1970s. Marriages, mortgages, & maturity. Fads got old. Drug culture is a dead-end. Conservative mood was returning.
