Social Movements

Members of the Counterculture Movement were known as what?

• Hippies
• Beatniks
• Yuppies
• Silent Minority

What grew out of the Boomer generation and challenged mainstream society in the 60's?

• Counterculture

• Lost Generation

• Silent Majority

• Hawks

She was a prominent leader of the 2nd wave feminist movement and founded a magazine titled Ms. to publish feminist beliefs.

• Rachel Carson

• Gloria Steinem

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Dolores Huerta

Which of the following were outcomes of the environmental movement?

• Clean Air and Clean Water Acts

• creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

• increased government regulation of polluters and toxic chemicals

• all of the above

What is feminism?

• the belief that women are superior to men

• the idea that women should receive special protection under the law

• the desire for the fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society

• the idea that women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal

One of the most outspoken critics of the Equal Rights Amendment; she argued that it would threaten the home and families and would lead to women in the draft and shared restrooms

• Rachel Carson

• Betty Friedan

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Dolores Huerta

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. the Board of Education
• Roe Vs. Wade

What religious group was Malcolm X a member of?

• Nation of Islam

• SNCC

• CORE

• Black Panthers

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued