This was the name of the three-day music festival of peace & love that is looked at as the culmination of this counterculture.
What is Woodstock?
100
This women wrote Feminine Mystique and is credited with raising awareness and starting a movement.
Who is Betty Freidan?
100
This activist is credited with starting the Chicano Movement by bringing attention to the struggles of migrant farmworkers and starting labor unions while organizing boycotts.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
100
This women wrote a book called Silent Spring and brought attention to the ill effects of industrial pollution causing awareness thus sparking the movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
100
This music group from Britain started a rock-and-roll revolution in the early 1960s that grew into something much bigger.
Who are the Beatles?
200
The counterculture had an epicenter in this section of California.
What is Haight-Ashbury?
200
This case, tried by the supreme court, made the controversial decision to legalize abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
An organization of Native Americans that protested for civil rights.
What is AIM (American Indian Movement)?
200
Nixon put together this program to look into the level of pollution and protect the ecological chain.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
200
A place that AIM occupied to protest the treatement of Native Americans. It ended with multiple deaths and injuries when the government sent in the FBI and troops to break-up the militant protest.
What is Wounded Knee?
300
The term used for the relationship between teenagers that identified with the counterculture and their parents.
What is generation gap?
300
An attempt at an amendment to protect gender equality under the law is known as ERA. It stands for this.
What is Equal Rights Amendment?
300
This organization was created during the Chicano Movement to protect farmworkers' rights and ensure they were being treated fairly by their employers.
What is the UFW (United Farm Workers)?
300
This day, that originally started as a day of protest to raise awareness and pressure the government into responding to the movement to fix the problems industrialization had caused, is held on April 22nd, starting in 1970.
What is Earth Day?
300
As a part of the Higher Education Act, this legally gave women the right to educational opportunities and said they could could not be discriminated against based on their gender.
What is Title IX?
400
This college professor/political radical urged teenagers to "tune in, turn on, and drop out."
Who is Timothy Leary?
400
This conservative woman opposed the effort of women to expand on their rights because she felt they needed to stay at home and take on the motherly roles of being a housewife. She said it was an attack on marriage, children, and the family.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
400
A broad Mexican American social and political effort for rights and raising cultural awareness in the late 60s was this.
What is Chicano movement?
400
This law was signed by Nixon in 1973 to protext species of plants and animals that faced a declining population.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
400
These people, typically Mexican Americans, went from farm to farm and worked in crop production in deplorable conditions with no benefits.
Who are migrant farmworkers?
500
A style of living where groups of counterculture hippies would form small communities, many time living off the earth and what it provided.
What are communes?
500
A theory that women should have equal political, social, and economic rights as men is known as this.
What is feminism?
500
This man wrote a book called Unsafe at Any Speed to bring attention to the problems automobile manufacturers have caused and an increase in deaths as a result of poor manufacturing thus speaking up for the consumers.
Who was Ralph Nader?
500
This law was signed by Nixon in 1970 to limit the emissions from automobiles and factories to reduce smog and other air pollutants.
What is the Clean Air Act?
500
A nuclear power plant accident at this site in New York, caused panic and fear in America creating an even larger frenzy to fix the problems of polltion.