Key Terms
The movement that worked to give women equal legal rights in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is the Women’s Rights Movement?
This book by Betty Friedan helped inspire the modern women’s rights movement.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
The leader who organized farmworkers to protest unfair working conditions.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The law passed in 1968 that protected civil rights of Native Americans in tribal governments.
What is the Indian Civil Rights Act?
The civil rights movement of the 1960s inspired other groups to fight for equal rights.
What is True?
This amendment proposed equal legal rights for men and women.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Chavez helped organize this boycott to support farmworkers’ rights.
What is the Grape Boycott?
This activist group worked to protect Native American rights in the late 1960s.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
Title IX applies only to professional sports leagues.
What is False
The law that banned discrimination based on gender in education programs.
What is Title IX?
This law required schools receiving federal funds to provide equal opportunities for female athletes.
What is Title IX?
The organization Chavez helped create to support farmworkers.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
AIM did not organized protests to draw attention to Native American rights and treaty issues. (True or False)
What is False?
Cesar Chavez believed in nonviolent protest.
What is True?
A policy that encourages equal opportunities for minorities and women.
What is Affirmative Action?
The women’s rights movement focused on equal pay, job opportunities, and this other major goal.
A. Ending segregation
B. Equal legal rights
C. Military expansion
D. Higher taxes
Equal legal rights
Farmworkers often protested to demand better pay and this improvement.
A. Better transportation
B. Better working conditions
C. Lower taxes
D. More immigration
What are better working conditions?
This policy aimed to give Native American tribes more control over their own affairs.
What is Self-determination?
The Equal Rights Amendment was fully added to the Constitution.
What is False?
The organization founded in 1966 that worked to advance women's rights.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
The Equal Rights Amendment was never fully ratified by the required number of states. (True or False)
True
Cesar Chavez encouraged peaceful protest and boycotts instead of violence. (True or False)
True
Native American activists protested to protect their land, culture, and treaty rights. (True or False)
What is True?
The American Indian Movement worked to bring attention to Native American issues.
What is True?