Chapter 5&6 Flashcards

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Earl Warren

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supreme court
- as chief justice of the supreme court he assaulted legal inequality, entrenched oligarchies, social injustice and conservative moral codes.

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Zeitgeist

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the German word for the political, cultural, and/or spiritual of the times in history

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Loving vs Virginia

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it made it illegal for states “to retain laws on their books that made marriage across racial lines a crime”

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Griswold vs. Connecticut

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it declared laws limiting access to birth control “violated the right of marital privacy and thus were unconstitutional”

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Roe vs. Wade

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it decided “that an abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy was legal despite local laws”

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Mapp vs. Ohio

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it held that evidence obtained without a search warrant violated the illegal searches and seizures provision of the constitution

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Gideon vs. Wainwright

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the “defendant in a criminal trial before a state court must be defended by an attorney”

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Escobedo vs. Illinois

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it established the “right to a lawyer before a suspect was indicted while he or she was merely being interrogated”

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Miranda vs. Arizona

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it established the “right of a criminal suspect, before interrogation, to be informed by the police of his or her right to an attorney and the right to be silent under the fifth amendment

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American Civil Liberities Union

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back in the 1920’s, this secular-minded organization “challenged a state law making teaching of evolution in public schools a crime”

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Americans for a Democratic Society

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it was dedicated to further extension of the New Deal social welfare system, international peace, and racial justice.”

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Multiversity

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to use the university to further industrialize the nation

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Tom Hayden

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he drafted the Port Huron Statement

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Todd Gitlin

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in 1960, he joined a Harvard group called TOCSIN, against nuclear weapons from 1963-64, he was president of SDS

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C. Wright Mills

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his book The Power Elite detailed the relationships and class alliances among political, military, and economic elites

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William Apple Williams

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he was one of the 20th century’s most prominent revisionists historians of American diplomacy and of the New Left

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New Left

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it began “in the mid-50’s by a group of left-wing British intellectuals who supported socialism and after 1960 it spread to the US

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Students for a Democratic Society

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in spring 1960 this campus organization was established at the university of Michigan to advance socialist ideas and policies

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Port Huron Statement

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a 1962 manifesto that called for participatory democracy, both as means and an end based on non-violent civil disobedience

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Economic Research and Action Project

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it was rediscovery of the old agent of change, namely the oppressed working class and thus replaced the focus from campus organizing to community action

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Saul Alinsky

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he was a community organizer considered to be the founder of modern community organizing the noted for his book Rules for Radicals

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Mario Savio

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he was a college student from NYC who was active in the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration drive in Mississippi

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Jack Weinburg

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in 1964, Jack was sitting at a table at UC-Berkeley and when he refused to show ID, the police arrested him

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Edmund Brown

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he was the governor of California when weinburg was arrested at UC-Berekeley promising to maintain law and order on campus

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You Can’t Trust Anyone Over 30

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Jack Weinburg said this during a 1965 interview

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Ken Kesey

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he was the novelist who wrote One flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1961 based on his experience working in a psychiatric ward with easy access to psychedelic drugs

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Marry Pranksters

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they lived on a farm with Ken Kesey in Cali where “they experiment with pot and LSD and in 1964 they took a long road trip in a customized bus made into a movie

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Jerry Rubin

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he was one of the founding members of the youth International Party

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F-K (verb)

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John Thompson was arrested for sitting on the steps at UC-Berekeley, not for speaking, but for holding a sign with these words

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Filthy Speech Eight

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before ronald reagan was elected Cali governer in 1966, he campaigned against eight filthy speech students at UC-Berekeley who used the “F” word

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Ronald Reagan

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he was an opponent of radicals on college campuses and when he was elected as Cali governor in 1966 he immediately fired the President of UC-Berekeley

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Herbert Marcuse

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In 1955 this college professor wrote Eros and civilization that envisioned a society free of repression that blighted middle-class life. In his Utopia, people could practice open sexuality and life could revolve around play, not labor

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Paul goodman

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In 1960 the psychologist wrote growing up absurd asserting that young people no longer had honorable work to do in our society and so they became delinquent and antisocial

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The weatherman

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They were splinter group off the students for a democratic society who work to find allies with cultural and ethnic liberation movements wherever they occur

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Days of rage

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October 1969 a group of weatherman clashed with Chicago police doing a days of rage campaign to prove that they could be tough, but broken heads and cracked shins taught them otherwise

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Organization of petroleum exporting countries

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A group of middle east nations that created oil embargo in 1973 that ended the long surge of prosperity among the industrial countries and reduced their economies

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Stagflation

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It is an economic period of simultaneous slow growth, High-unemployment, and rapid price rise