WorksheetsAntiwar Protests and the Counterculture
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which two statements are true about young people in the 1960s and 1970s? (select two answers)
They were mostly silent and did not join movements
The rejected traditional values and institutions
Many embraced the politics of the "New Left"
They believed that politics was meaningless
Students who opposed the draft by burning their draft cards or refusing to register were called what?
Draft resisters
Draft dodgers
Conscientious objectors
Army deserters
Which movement rejected traditional values and forms of behavior, often embracing drugs and and "free love" instead?
Abolitionism
Reform Movement
Counterculture
Temperance Movement
Which of the following was NOT a target of student protest in the 1960s and 1970s?
Vietnam War
High college tuition
Economic inequality
Racism
What happened at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?
Republicans secretly broke in to Democrat headquarters
Violent protests broke out that were broadcast on TV
Dr. Martin Luther King gave a stirring speech on racial equality
The Democrat Party fell apart and ended
What happened to students protesting the bombing of Cambodia at Kent State and Jackson State?
Students started fires that burned the colleges down
Planned protests never took place
President Nixon visited the protestors
Several students were killed
