Standard 24The student will analyze the impact of social change movements and organizations of the 1960s.

A

Two Major Civil Rights Organizations The Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced "snick") sit-ins, freedom rides, leading role in the 1963 March on

Washington. SNCC's major contribution:

organizing voter registration drives all over the South, especially in Georgia and Mississippi.

In the later 1960s, led by fiery leaders such as Stokely Carmichael, SNCC focused on "black power", and then protesting against the Vietnam War.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

It’s first president was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The origins of the SCLC lie in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

criticized for lack of militancy

SNCC’s Tactics A sit-in or sit-down is a form of

direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change. A sit-in is a form of nonviolent

protest. Civil Rights activists called

Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia. Boynton v. Virginia had outlawed

racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.

A member of the SCLC in the 1960s would have been most supportive ofA. The war in Vietnam.

B. Nixon’s views on civil rights.

C. Peaceful protests to achieve social justice.

D. Conservative political ideas.

A radical African American college student in the late 1960s who believed that blacks should use whatever means necessary to claim their civil rights would have MOST LIKELY been a member ofA. The NAACP

B. The SNCC

C. The SCLC

D. The Republican Party

B

National Organization for Women The National Organization

for Women (NOW) is the largest American feminist organization.

NOW promotes the idea that women and men are alike in important respects and, therefore, entitled to equal rights and opportunities.

NOW was started by Betty Friedan. The writer of The Feminine

Mystique.

Supporters of the women’s movement in the 1960s would have MOST LIKELY opposedA. Civil rights.

B. The Equal Rights Amendment.

C. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade.

D. Traditional ideas about motherhood and marriage.

C

The Anti-Vietnam Movement Public opposition to the war

builds on various college campuses in the United States.

The Draft, as a system of conscription which threatened lower class registrants and middle class registrants alike, drove much of the protest after 1965.

Opposition to the war arose during a time of unprecedented student activism which followed the free speech movement and the civil rights movement.

Public reaction in the US to the Vietnam War can BEST be described as what?A. United

B. Divided

C. Supporting the war

D. Opposed to the war

The incident at Kent State that resulted in the death of four students was an example ofA. The suspension of habeas corpus.

B. The federal government’s crackdown on communism.

C. The violence that sometimes surrounded the civil rights movement.

D. Protests against the Vietnam War.

D

Cesar Chavez César Chávez was a

Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who founded the United Farm Workers.

His work led to numerous improvements for union laborers.

His work focused on unskilled migrant laborers.

He used non-violent protests like Martin Luther King, Jr.

A migrant worker in the 1960s would have been most loyal toA. Cesar Chavez.

B. Rachel Carson.

C. Barry Goldwater.

D. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cesar Chavez was MOST influenced byA. Abraham Lincoln.

B. Emilio Aguinaldo.

C. Martin Luther King, Jr.

D. Ronald Reagan.

E

Rachel Carson Rachel Carson was an American

marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Her book, Silent Spring, helped start the environmental movement by exposing the hazards of pesticides.

Her work also lead to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A government organization that

works to protect the environment.

Earth Day

Earth Day is one of two observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere.

These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment.

Rachel Carson is credited with inspiring the modernA. Environmentalist movement.

B. Women’s movement.

C. Migrant worker’s movement.

D. Anti-war movement.

Someone inspired by Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, would MOST LIKELY become an active member in theA. Anti-war movement.

B. Civil rights movement.

C. Environmentalist movement.

D. Women’s movement.

F

Barry Goldwater

Goldwater is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.

Goldwater rejected the legacy of the New Deal and fought inside the conservative coalition to defeat the New Deal.

His efforts manifested themselves in the election of Ronald Reagan.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only president to ever resign the office.

His election is seen as a conservative response to the more liberal direction of Lyndon B. Johnson.

A. Which of the following policies would MOST LIKELY be favored by a conservative?A. More government social programs to deal with

economic disparity

B. Wealth redistribution

C. Fewer welfare programs and less government regulation

D. Higher taxes

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