Native Americans
This 1887 legislation tried to breakup the Native tribes by offering individual Native American families 160 acres of land
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
This WW II program encouraged Mexican Americans to come to the US to be migrant farmers to replace those Americans who were fighting the AXIS.
What was the Bracero Program?
Author of the Feminine Mystique,
Who was Betty Friedan?
This president passed the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and OSHA.
Who was Richard Nixon?
This New Deal legislation did away with the Dawes Act and tried to bring tribes back together.
What was the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act?
These "riots" in Los Angeles targeted Latinos and African Americans for wearing "baggy" clothing.
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
Who was Gloria Steinem?
This president created the Environmental Protection Agency, tasked with safeguarding America's environment,
Who was Richard Nixon?
This Commissioner of Indian Affairs allowed Native spiritual practices and used anthropologists to documents tribes and their culture.
Who was John Collier?
During World War II, Mexican Americans, unlike African Americans, were fighting in these types of units,
What were integrated military units?
This was women's right's group was founded in 1966. It brought once taboo issues to light like rape and abortion.
What was the National Organization for Women (NOW).
This transcendentalists was the first environmentalist.
Who was Henry David Thoreau? (Walden)
In 1953 Congress passed this legislation that encouraged Native Americans to move to the cities (75% left the reservations).
What was the 1953 termination policy?
This man single handedly brought the plight of migrant workers out west to light during the 1960s and 70s.
Who was Caesar Chavez?
The case that forced states to allow women to have abortion during the 1st trimester of their pregnancy.
What was Roe v. Wade?
However, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, 2022 overturned Roe v Wade and now states are making their own laws regarding abortion.
This US incident highlighted the fears of nuclear power.
What was Three Mile Island? (PA)
This organization used protests (occupying 74 federal facilities) to bring attention to the plight of Native Americans because of the termination policy
What was AIM or American Indian Movement?
With the help of Caesar Chavez, western migrants workers, most of whom were Latino, created this union.
What was the United Farm Workers?
This legislation banned all sexual discrimination in education, including athletics.
What is Title IX?
This natural disaster was one of the first Super Fund sights, as buried toxic waste got into the water supply, sicking hundreds in this New York community.
What was Love Canal?