CHAPTER
23—An Era of Social Change
Section 2—Women Fight for
Equality
and 3—Culture
and Counterculture
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I.
A New Women’s Movement Arises
A. The theory behind the
women’s movement of the 1960’s
was…
1. Feminism
is the belief that…
2.
Feminists beliefs gained momentum during the mid-1800’s
and
in 1920 women won the...
3. This
movement declined only to be reawakened during the
60’s.
B. Women in the workplace
1. In
1950,______________women worked for wages.
2. In 1960,
that number had increased to_____.
3. In 1963,
The Presidential Commission on the Status of
Women
reported that women were paid far less than men.
4. It also
reported that women held certain_____________
and
were seldo
5. These
facts awakened many women to their unequal status.
6. Many
women were also treated unequal within certain
Civil
Rights organizations such as...
II. The Movement Experiences Gains and Losses
A. The Creation of the
National Organization for Women (NOW)
created________________,
banned gender
discrimination
and declared _____________________illegal
B. ______________, a
journalist, political activist, and
ardent
supporter of the women’s liberation movement, was a
loud
voice for feminism and equality.
C. ________________ was
one of NOW’s more controversially
supported
positions that stood behind a woman’s right to
have
an abortion.
D. In 1972, Congress
passed the ________________________(ERA)
that
would guarantee that both men and women would enjoy
the
same rights under the protection of the law.
E.
_________________urged a petition against ERA stating that
it
would lead to…
G. The_________was formed which focused on_________,_________
and
__________________associated with ERA and pro-abortion
supporters.
The ERA is defeated.
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CULTURE AND
COUNTERCULTURE—section 3, Chapter 23
I.
The Counterculture
A. The Counterculture
was so different than the mainstream that it scarcely looked
like
a culture at all but instead like an alarming appearance of...
1.
The Counterculture was a movement made up mostly of white, middle-class
college youths who had grown disillusioned with the…
2. Influenced by the nonconformist_________________, hippies shared
some beliefs of the New Left movement and were against…
3. ___________________was a motto that caused tens of thousands of
idealistic youths to leave school, work or home to create what they hoped
would
be an idyllic community of peace, love and harmony.
B. The Hippie Era
1.
This Era was marked by_______,__________,_________-and illegal
drugs.
2.
Sometimes known as the__________, Hippies donned ragged jeans, tie-dyed
T-shirts, military garments, love bead and Native American ornaments.
3.
Hippies also rejected conventional
home life and migrated to___________a
hippie community in
II. A Changing Culture
A. The
Counterculture left his mark on Art as prominent artist…
B. The_____ helped to propel rock music into mainstream
millions
of young Americans to this new type of music.
C. As a result of
rock and roll over_____________showed up at the
music
and art show. The festival represented the 60’s movement of peace and love
D.________,____________(FBI)
and countless others issued a warning that
“________________”
was a threat on campuses and in cities.
1.
As a result, conservative law makers sought to disengage the counterculture by
passing laws against lawlessness and crime associated with the movement.
2.
The growing conservative movement would propel Nixon into the White House
and set the tone on a more conservative course.
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