Quiz #12 Flashcards
The Immigration Act of 1965
abolished the national origins quota system.
Which of the following musicians shocked fans in 1965 by shifting to a “folk rock” style of music, singing songs that suggested that the old America was beyond redemption?
Bob Dylan
The Beatles had a powerful influence on American popular culture in all the following ways EXCEPT
introducing Americans to jazz music
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“All you need is Love”
Beatles
Which of the following Supreme Court decisions struck down 46 state laws that restricted a woman’s access to abortion?
Roe v. Wade
The successes won by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s included all the following EXCEPT the
ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
How did students respond at UC Berkeley when the university president Clark Kerr threatened to expel Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement, in 1964?
Six thousand of them went on strike.
In Griswold v. Connecticut (1964), the United States Supreme Court ruled that
a ban on the sale of contraceptives was unconstitutional.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States Supreme Court offended the sensibilities of the “silent majority” on all of the following issues EXCEPT
protecting the rights of corporate America.
What Harvard professor advised students to “Turn on to the scene, tune in to what is happening, and drop out¼”?
Timothy Leary
How did the United Farm Workers under Cesar Chavez accomplish additional leverage in their protest against working conditions for migrant laborers?
They organized a consumer boycott of grapes in supermarkets while Chavez undertook several hunger strikes.
Which of the following Warren Court rulings made it possible for Latinos to seek redress as a group rather than as individuals?
Hernández v. Texas
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“Come mothers and fathers / Throughout the land
And don’t criticize / What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters / Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin’.
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’”
Bob Dylan
What shattered the Democratic Party in 1968?
riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
In the case of Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the court declared that
individuals detained for crime must be informed of their constitutional rights.
Example of how CA’s “counterculture” of the late 1960s turned violent
Manson Family
A series of decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s were based on the Fourteenth Amendment’s
due process clause
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.”
SDS Port Huron Statement, 1962
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“WE BELIEVE THAT women will do most to create a new image of women by acting now, and by speaking out in behalf of their own equality, freedom, and human dignity - - not in pleas for special privilege, nor in enmity toward men, who are also victims of the current, half-equality between the sexes - - but in an active, self-respecting partnership with men. By so doing, women will develop confidence in their own ability to determine actively, in partnership with men, the conditions of their life, their choices, their future and their society. “
NOW Statement of Purpose, 1966
The defining moment in the gay rights movement came when
patrons at the Stonewall Tavern in New York City responded to a police raid by fighting back.
In which place, in 1969, did all the positive forces of the counterculture come together to celebrate peace, love, and freedom?
Woodstock
Richard Nixon in 1968 campaigned on a platform
promoting law and order.
The main purpose of the UFW was to
unionize farm workers
Which of the following was NOT a goal of minority organizations focused on identity politics?
assimilation into mainstream American culture
All of the following were elements of Johnson’s “Great Society” programs EXCEPT
a funding program to return tax revenues to states.
