Counterculture Quiz

Cesar Chavez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American ______.

• voters.

• students.

• factory workers.

• farm workers.

The event that was most responsible for Chavez’s group gaining negotiating power as a recognized union was

_____.

• a national boycott.

• a protest march.

• a strike.

• an act of Congress.

In the 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose, Native American groups focused on the right of _____.

• self-determination.

• privacy.

• property ownership.

• freedom of worship

The Indian Education Act gave greater control over the education of Native Americans to _____

• Native American tribes.

• the government.

• the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

• the American Indian Movement.

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

• Gloria Steinem

• Robin Morgan

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

The counterculture movement helped to popularize all of the following except _____

• shaved heads.

• blue jeans.

• rock music.

• experimentation with illegal drugs.

Who did conservatives blame for the increasing permissiveness in American society?

• women and minorities

• democrats

• campus rebels and the counterculture

• the Beatles

Which of the following did Cesar Chavez do in an attempt to meet his goals?

• He ran for Congress as a liberal democrat.

• He adopted the tactics of nonviolent protest.

• He adopted the tactics of militant confrontation.

• He created an independent Latino political movement.

The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for an end to _____

• nonviolent resistance.

• the reservation system.

• the termination program.

• the National Council of Indian Opportunity.

The demonstrations organized by the American Indian Movement were designed to _____

• passively resist the federal government.

• actively confront the federal government.

• build an alliance with other minority groups.

• promote cooperation with the federal government.