History: chapter 23 test Flashcards
Cesar Chavez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American
farm workers.
The event that was most responsible for Chavez’s group gaining negotiating power was
a national boycott.
In the 1970s, La Raza Unida focused its efforts on
electing Latinos to public office.
The Indian Education Act gave greater control over the education of Native Americans to
Native American tribes.
In the 1970s, the American Indian Movement organized all of the following except the
meeting that resulted in the Declaration of Indian Purpose.
The modem feminist movement became more organized and focused after the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Phyllis Schlafly became well known for her efforts to
defeat the Equal Rights Amendment.
The members of the counterculture movement were mostly
white, middle-class college youths.
Conservatives placed the blame for the increasing permissiveness in society on
campus rebels and the counterculture.
The conservative reaction to the counter culture
helped propel Richard M. Nixon into the White House.
she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
this is the theory behind the women’s movement
feminism
this was passed by the Congress but never ratified by the states
Equal Rights Amendment
she co-founded Ms. magazine and the National WOmen’s Political Caucus
Gloria Steinem
in The Feminine Mystique, she wrote about “the problem that has no name.”
Betty Friedan
