This Beatles song, released in 1967 has been said to embody the 1960s counterculture, along with the popular album it appears on known as..
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What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Which famous baseball player broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record in 1961 and became the first person to ever hit more than 60 home runs in a season?
What is Roger Maris
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This was the title of President Johnson's agenda for social reform.
What is The Great Society
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This U.S. president won the 1964 election over Barry Goldwater.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
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This was the name given to groups of Civil Rights activists who took buses through the deep south.
What is Freedom Riders
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A popular nickname given to the people of the 1960s counter-culture.
What is Hippies.
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The song being played in this 1969 Rolling Stones concert made famous by an incident that occurred in the crowd between a young man and the Hell's Angels, who were the Stone's security crew that night. In the clip you see the beginnings of a fight that later in the performance results in the stabbing of 18 year old Meredith Hunter.
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What is Sympathy for the Devil.
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This greatly increased the amount of government spending.
What is the War on Poverty
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This U.S. president gave the famous "ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country" quote during their inaugural address, speaking to the people who were absorbed in materialism.
Who is John F. Kennedy
200
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream Speech" during this demonstration.
What is the 1963 March on Washington
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The 1960s was known for groundbreaking music, as well as psychedelic drugs. These aspects of the counterculture all came together in the most well known music festival that concluded the decade in 1969 with 3 days of peace and music in White Lake, NY.
What is Woodstock.
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This popular spaghetti western was the third and final installment in Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy and portrayed Clint Eastwood in the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner.
What is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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This new office was created in response to growing foreign trade.
What is the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
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Which political group kept President Kennedy from acting for Civil Rights for much of his presidency, fearing that he would lose their support?
What is the Southern Democrats
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This was the name of the philosophy that rejected the "hedonistic" societal ideals.
What is anti-materialism
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The 1960s counterculture was united in their opposition to the Vietnam War, typically leading major anti-war protests, the most infamous of which occurred at Kent State University in Ohio. Four protesters were killed, and numerous others were injured. A song called Ohio that focused on these events was performed by..
Who is Neil Young.
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This famous song was originally written and performed by..
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Who is Bob Dylan.
400
This book by Michael Harrington exposed the horrors of poverty and brought the issue to the forefront of American minds.
What is "The Other America"
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Lyndon B. Johnson was one of only three southern senators not to sign this document, which contested the ruling in Brown v. Board.
What is the Southern Manifesto
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These riots broke out in Greenwich Village, following the discriminatory raid against a popular gay bar.
What is the Stonewall Riots
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A counterculture celebrity of the 1960s known for his work on the Harvard Psilocybin Experiments, who publically advocated for the use of psychedelic drugs and popularized the phrase "tune on, tune in, and drop out" that illustrated the counterculture attitude. A man who saw the inside of 29 prisons in his lifetime and was described by Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America."
Who is Timothy Leary.
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Who is the main character in the 1960's show that portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional community of Mayberry, North Carolina?
Who is Andy Griffith
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This was the name given to the worst day on Wall Street since Black Tuesday.
What is "Kennedy's Crash"
500
This treaty gave provisions for an alliance between Japan and the United States, and the returning of territories to Japan.
What is the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security
500
The rising skirtlines and advocacy for birth control were two examples of this movement.