T1 M5 Civil Protests and Movements

Question 1

What is a movement?

Answer 1

A movement is a loosely organised but sustained campaign in support of a particular goal.

Question 2

What is a civil society protest?

Answer 2

A civil society protest is the action taken by ordinary citizens against government policies or situations that seem unfair.

Question 3

What are pink collar jobs?

Answer 3

Jobs such as waitresses, primary school teachers, nurses, salespeople, secretaries or seamstresses, that women were restricted to.

Question 4

What was found from JFK’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1963?

Answer 4

• Work for women was overwhelmingly low-paid, part-time and without responsibility.
• Women could still be dismissed when they got married or pregnant.

Question 5

What act was passed in response to the commission on the status of women?

Answer 5

The equal pay act.

Question 6

What year was the feminist National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded?

Answer 6

1966

Question 7

Who wrote the book The Feminine Mystique?

Answer 7

Betty Friedan.

Question 8

What were the differences between the lives of white and African women in South African society?

Answer 8

• White women enjoyed a much higher standard of living than their African counterparts.
• White women were able to enter better-paying jobs in the public and private sectors, while black women occupied unskilled jobs in factories or were domestic workers in white households.

Question 9

What was the reason the Federation of South African Women was founded?

Answer 9

The government, announcing that black women would be required to carry passbooks, in 1954.

Question 10

What is FEDSAW/FSAW?

Answer 10

The Federation of South African Women.

Question 11

What was the Federation of South African Women?

Answer 11

A non-racial organisation that called for women across the country to unite across racial and class divides.

Question 12

What was the Black sash?

Answer 12

A group of middle-class white women who took on different issues.

Question 13

What led to peace movements in the 1960s?

Answer 13

The Cold War was at its height in the 1960s and people were very afraid.

Question 14

What happened in Britain in 1958?

Answer 14

People formed the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) as a mass political protest movement against the threat of nuclear warfare due to the Cold War.