WorksheetsMovements of America
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
What movement has defined your generation the most?
LGBTQ
Black Lives Matter
Environmental (Climate Change)
Marijuana Legalization / Decriminalize
Gun Control / Gun Rights
