Women's Rights Movement
The main goal of the Women's Rights Movement during the 1960's and 1970's?
What is to get equal opportunities in all areas of life including jobs and education
This activist group was founded in 1968 to fight for Native American rights.
What is AIM?
This group rejected traditional American values and embraced peace and love.
What are hippies?
This 1962 book exposed the dangers of pesticides and helped start the environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
This term describes government policies designed to increase opportunities for historically marginalized groups.
What is Affirmative Action?
Which ammendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th ammendment.
AIM focused on improving conditions in this type of community where many Native Americans lived.
What are reservations?
Many experimented with this, believing it expanded the mind.
What is LSD or Psychedellics?
This 1969 disaster off the coast of California spilled massive amounts of oil into the ocean.
What is the Santa Barbara oil spill?
This term refers to unfair hiring or school practices that favor one group over another.
What is bias?
The name of the ammendment that was meant to get rid of gender differences in law or legan documents that did not pass
What is ERA or The Equal Rights Ammendment?
This movement fought for the rights of Mexican Americans.
What is the Chicano Movement?
Young people protested to end this military conflict.
What is the Vietnam War?
This agency was created in 1970 to protect human health and the environment.
What is the EPA/Environmental Protection Agency?
This women’s movement goal focused on equal pay for equal work.
What is wage equality?
The argument that opposers of the womens rights movement such as Phyllis Schlaffly made to try and scare women into being against the Equal Rights Ammendment
What is women having to declare for the draft?
Farmworkers protested for better pay and conditions in this industry.
What is agriculture/farming?
This 1969 festival symbolized peace, music, and unity.
What is Woodstock?
Protecting natural resources for future generations.
What is conservation?
This 1979 accident occurred at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
What is the Three Mile Island accident?
The goal of this organization was founded to achieve equality and otherwise bring American women into full participation in the mainstream of American society
What is NOW?
Who is Caesar Chaves and Dolores Huertas?
This slogan encouraged people to avoid war and embrace love.
The city where many people became ill and found out they lived on a toxic waste dump.
What is Love Canal?
The accident caused fear of this dangerous invisible threat.
What is radiation?