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political left created a community of ppl to break power of elites and end war, pursue econ. justice
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liberation
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deumnanizing pressure> ppl try to escap through new culture
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technocracy
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amer. college and universitiy students. 1960s
large diverse group energized by polarizing develop. of time to challene political system |
new left
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sociologist at columbia university
wrote a series of scathing critiques on modern buacracies |
C. Wright Mills
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formed by college students. 1962. michigan
create Port Huron Statement> express disillusionment with society & determiniation to build new politics |
Students for a Democratic society
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1964- Berkley
students challenge campus police, occupy admin. offices, produce strike to promote right of student to pass out literature and recruit volunteers for political causes on campus |
Free Speech Movement
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berkley- 1964
most prolonged and troubled conflict on any american campus polarized berkley student radicals win large audience for first time |
People's Park
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vilent off shoot of SDS
responsible for cases of arson and bombing= destroyed campus buildings gave image that all student group were radical |
Weathermen
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rebuke to norms of mid-class culture ( woodstock 1969)
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counterculture
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young americans= long hair, flamboyant clothes, rebel against traditional speech and decorum
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hippie
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potent hallucinogen used by hippies
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LSD
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relaxed approaches of sexuality
b/c of birth control pill and legaliztion of abortions (1973) |
sexual revolution
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neighborhood in san francisco
hippies reject modern society> want cultivation of self |
Haight- Ashbury
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english group comes over in 1964
concentrate on uncontroversial love themes "I want to hold your hand" by late 1960s= mystivcal approach w/ drugs and eastern religions |
beatlemania
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NY 1969
fusion of rock and counterculture= music festival peaceful sex drugs |
woodstock
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featured archie bunker= a lower mid-class bigot
shows social and cultural conflict on tv |
All in the Family
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fed govt withdrew all recognition of indian tribes as legal entity
made them subject to same local jurisdiction as white residents >>tribes grew politcally weaker. disorder for tribes . widespread corruption. barred by eisenhower in 1958 |
termination- 1953
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young militant indian- 1968
drew support from indians in urban and reservation areas |
American Indian Movement
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400 members of 67 tribes- 1961
tight to choose own way of life |
Decleration of Indian Purpose
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1968- this guaranteed reservation indians many of the same rights as the bill of rights.
recog. legitimacy of the tribes leaders of AIM still not satisifed> take direct action |
Indian Civil Rights Act
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ct case
said tribes have indep. legal standing and couldnt be terminated- 1978 |
US v. Wheeler
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ct. case
support indian claims to 100,000 acres in upstate NY |
County of Oneida vs. Onedia Indian Nation
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effort to persuade indians to transcend tribal divisions and work together
> no single indian culture in amer.-- didnt flourish |
pan-indianism
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poorer wave of cuban immigrants- 1980s
arrive in FL when castro relzes exit restrictions less eaily assimilated |
Marielitos
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the govt in 1953 deport illegal immig on Pacific Coast
failed to stem new arrivals (lgst in La) |
operation wetback
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young mexican- american activists
emphasize a shared culture of spanish speaking americans |
chicanos
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chicano politcal party
call for creation of autonmous mexican-amer state within a state |
la raza unida
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Az-born chicano farmworker
creates UFW |
cesar chavez
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created by chavez
launched prolonged strike against growers to demand recognition of union& increase in wage and benefits gets CORE SNCC college students to boycott grapes and lettuce |
United Farm Workers
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older immig, believe thay have to adopt amer. values and rules to advance
new immig. reject= want ethnic identities |
meliting pot
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radical and ethnic groups was to perserve heitage
largely suceed= affim. action programs> multiculturalism |
cultural pluralism
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june 27,1969. gay nightclub in NY
police officer raid and arrest patrons> gay onlookers attack police. start fire marks beginning of gay liberation movement |
Stonewall Riots
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by Betty Friedan 1963
claimed suburbs repressed intellectual women. chronicles unhappiness= gives voice to feminist movement |
feminine mystique
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passed by kennedy in 1963
barred pervasive practice of paying women less than men for equal work |
equal pay act
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incorporated in to civil rights act 1964
extend to woman many of the same legal protect as blacks |
Title VII
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created by freidan and feminists
largest femin. org; drew from black struggle for freedom demand greater education opportunities. |
NOW
national organization for women |
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1st female to serve on the supreme court
appt by Regan 1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor
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2nd female to serve on supreme court
Clinton- 1993 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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1st female VP candidate
1984- Dem. |
Geraldine Ferraro
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1st woman astronaut in space- 1983
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Sally Ride
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based on "right to privacy"
invalidated all laws prohibiting abortion in 1st trimester |
roe v. wade
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science of inter-relatedness of the natural world
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ecology
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by Rachel Carson
revealed dangers of pesticides based on the idea of ecologists introduced idea to public |
Silent spring- 1962
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wife of pres.
raised public awarenessof land beautification campaign |
Lady Bird Johnson
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giant tanker hit a reef off coast of Alaska- 1989
largest oil spill |
Exxon Valdez
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april 22, 1970
prposed by wis. senator Nelson environmental |
Earth Day
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congress and nixon- 1970
enforce antipollution standards on busniesses and consumers |
Environmental Protection Agency
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passed in 1970 and 1972
provide govt with other tools to help environment |
Clean Air and Water Acts
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