Movements of America

Who wrote The Feminine Mystique and help establish the National Organization for Women (NOW).

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Alice Paul

• Betty Friedan

• Susan B. Anthony

Some men and women openly challenged the women's movement. What conservative political activist denounced women's liberation as "a total assault on the family, on marriage, and on children"?

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Alice Paul

• Margaret Sanger

• Nancy Reagan

Identify some of the movements taking place in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Abolitionist Movement

• Environmental Movement

• Prohibition Movement

• National Indian Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

What movement was led by Dennis Banks and George Mitchell, that worked to address civil rights issues, particularly securing land and legal rights? They led confrontations with the government at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco and Wounded Knee in South Dakota.

• Chicano Movement

• Environmental Movement

• American Indian Movement

• The Counterculture

Which movement best revealed the growing generation gap evolving out of the 1960s?

• Women's Movement

• The Counterculture

• Chicano Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

What effects came about as a result of the Environmental Movement?

• Earth Day

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Clean Air & Clear Water Act

• Endangered Species Act

What movement did Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring help jumpstart into action?

• Civil Rights

• Gay Rights

• Women's Rights

• Evangelical

• Environmental

Who was an influential Latino activist that fought for rights for farm laborers?

• Dennis Banks

• Rachel Carsons

• Cesar Chavez

• Stokley Carmichael

What event led to the growth and influence of the counterculture?

• Death of President Kennedy

• Vietnam War

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Election of Richard Nixon

Historians often refer to the women's movement of the 60s and 70s as the second wave of ( ), or the theory of political, social, and economic equality of men and women.

• liberation

• independence

• suffrage

• feminism