The Chicago 7 Conspiracy Trial 1969-70

Question 1

Levittown

Answer 1

• Houses that were mass produced
• Financed by the GI bill
• Beginning of suburbs

Question 2

Baby Boom

Answer 2

• By 1960 children under 14 constitute 1/3 of the populations

Question 3

Elvis Presley

Answer 3

• Combined black R&B with white people music

* His hips were to suggestive filmed from the waist up only

Question 4

The Great Society

Answer 4

(1965- 1968) by LBJ  
Medicare and medicade
• National endowment for the humanities
• Housing and urban development
• Clean water and air acts
• Endangered species act

Question 5

Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)

Answer 5

• Afraid he would not be as popular and well liked as JFK

Question 6

Vietnam War

Answer 6

• Televised
• College students did not have to serve, they had motivation to have the war end before they gradated because they could then be drafted.

Question 7

Port huron statement

Answer 7

(1962) (written by Tom Hayden)
o We live amidst a national celebration of economic prosperity while poverty and deprivation remain an unbreakable way of life for millions in the affluent society. We hear glib reference to the welfare state and “free enterprise”

Question 8

Students for a democratic society (SDS)

Answer 8

• Help lead Anti-War movement on campuses

o b/c of baby boom there were 7 million college students in 64.

Question 9

Communes

Answer 9

• Live together
• Grow food
• Share things

Question 10

Summer of Love

Answer 10

Haight- Ashbury (san Francisco) 1967

Question 11

Tet offensive

Answer 11

(Jan 1968)

Question 12

MLK and RFK assassinations

Answer 12

MLK (April 4, 1968)
RFK 
• Turned against the war 
   o Pro civil rights
• Assassinated June 5 1968

Question 13

The MOBE

Answer 13

• National mobilization to End the war

Question 14

Yippies

Answer 14

youth international party

Question 15

Mayor Richard Daley

Answer 15

• Denies most permits
• Prepares for “invasion”
• 13,000 army and national guard troops called in
• 12,000 police put on 12 hour shifts
• takes LSD water supply threats seriously

Question 16

Abbie Hoffman

Answer 16

• Arrested for public indecency for having “F” on forehead
• Undercover offcer also says he heard Hoffman say. “we’re going to f up the pigs and the convention”
AFTER THE TRIAL
• wrote a book STEAL THIS BOOK (1970)
• Goes underground
• 1989 death (suicide)

Question 17

Jerry Rubin

Answer 17

Kill the pigs kill the cops

Question 18

Tom Hayden

Answer 18

Make sure that if the blood is going to flow that it flow over the whole city
• Marries Jane Fonda
• California state senator
• College teacher

Question 19

Bobby Seale

Answer 19

Leader of the Black Panthers
Speaks in Lincoln Park
Urges violent response if police use force
Put on trial again in 1970 For allegedly ordering the murder of a fellow black panther movement

Question 20

Bradenburg v. Ohio

Answer 20

1969
• Klan leader Charles Bradenburg
• Called for “revengeance” against “niggers” “Jews” and those who supported them. Called for a march on Washington
• Intent imminence and likelihood.

Question 21

Woodstock

Answer 21

August 1969

Question 22

Weather underground

Answer 22

(1969)
• Radical splinter group from SDS (begins on university of Michigan Campus)
• Plotting revolutionary overthrow of US
• Bombings (including Haymarket Statue)
• Jailbreak of Timothy Leary

Question 23

Judge Julius Hoffman

Answer 23

• Born in 1895, 73 yrs old

* Attended law school before WW1

Question 24

Defense attorney William Kuntsler

Answer 24

• Kuntsler was ACLU lawyer famous for defending radicals including Catonsville 9

Question 25

Kent State Shootings

Answer 25

May 1970

4 sudents killed 9 wounded

Question 26

Civil rights act of 68

Answer 26

(fair housing act) April ‘68
• Provided federal penalties
• Made it illegal to discriminate in hosing based on “race, color, religion, or national origin”
• But opponents of the bill slip in a “poison pill” the “anti-riot” provision