Women’s Rights & The ERA
What was the name of the proposed constitutional amendment that aimed for full legal equality but ultimately failed to be ratified?
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Cesar Chavez used an international boycott of what specific fruit to show that a superpower's economy was vulnerable to global moral opinion?
Grapes
Which activist group occupied Alcatraz and Wounded Knee to force the U.S. to live up to its own treaties?
AIM (American Indian Movement)
Which President launched the “Great Society” programs to combat poverty and racial injustice in 1964-1965?
Lyndon B. Johnson
According to The Feminine Mystique, where should women seek fulfillment instead of just in the home?
Professional careers
The UFW forced the U.S. to grant basic human rights to workers, challenging the legacy of what decades-old labor import program?
The "Bracero" Legacy
To maintain its authority as "leader of the free world," the U.S. shifted toward what policy for Native Americans in the 1970s?
Tribal Self-Determination
What 1969 event was a rejection of Cold War paranoia and launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement?
Stonewall Inn Riot
Title IX wasn't just about fairness; it was argued that the U.S. needed to train 100% of its workforce to win what "race" against the USSR?
The "Brains Race"
Beyond bargaining rights, what "contradiction" did the extreme poverty of farmworkers expose about the U.S. during the Cold War?
U.S. prosperity vs. extreme poverty
How did the Soviet Union use the U.S. treatment of Native Americans in their propaganda?
Claimed American "democracy" was a sham
In the 1950s/60s, what was the name of the government’s attempt to fire LGBTQ+ people by claiming they were "security risks"?
The Lavender Scare
Which organization was founded by Betty Friedan to secure equal treatment and job opportunities for women?
National Organization for Women (NOW)
The influx of what specific group in the postwar era led to many workers being underpaid, connecting to Key Concept 3?
Latin Americans
The founding of AIM was partly a response to which presidential administration's attempt to expand and take more land?
Eisenhower Administration
By the 1980s, the fight for research into what disease became a test of whether the superpower would care for its most marginalized?
AIDS research