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Bi-Centennial Counter Celebration

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When the 200th anniversary of the Boston Tea party was celebrated in Boston, an enormous crowd turned out, not for the official celebration, but for the “People’s Bi-centennial counter celebration, where packages marked “ Gulf oil” and “Exxon” were dumped into the Boston Harbor to symbolize opposition to corporate power in America.

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ARAMCO

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The Arabian-American Oil Corporation 75% of stock held by American Oil Companies; 25% held by Saudi Arabia made 1 dollar profit per barrel of oil in 1973. By 74 it was 4.50….”None of this would be affected by who was president”

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Trilateral Commission

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organized by a group of intellectuals and political leaders from Japan, the United States and Western Europe, Issued a report entitled The Governability of Democracies which commented on the lack of government authority, Huntington reported all of this to the Trilateral Commission which was organized in 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski

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James McCord

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James McCord Jr. worked for the Nixon campaign;
security officer for CREEP or Committee to Re-elect the President…was one of the five burglars caught, had worked for CIA

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CIA

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The investigations of the CIA disclosed the following:
The CIA had gone beyond its original mission of gathering information, was conducting several different secret operations; had administered LSD to unsuspecting Americans to test its effects
2. Was also involved in assassination plots; against Castro
3. In 1971 Introduced African Swine Fever virus into Cuba
Also worked to destabilize the Chilean Government under Salvadore Allende, who was a Marxist

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Gerald Ford

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Became president after nixon resigned. He pardoned Nixon, “Thus saving him from possible criminal proceedings and allowing him to retire with a huge pension in California.”

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The Mayaguez Affair

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The Mayaguez was an American Cargo Ship, stopped by Cambodians, taken to port, crew reported bring treated hospitably.

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Investigation and the FBI

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The investigation of the FBI disclosed many years of illegal actions to disrupt and destroy radical groups and left wing groups of all kinds”, The FBI also forged letters, Opened Mail, Engaged in burglaries.

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Who was the first person to resign as President of the United States?

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Richard Nixon

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Eleanoer Antin’s Piece Carving, A Traditional Sculpture

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Documented her 10lbs weight loss over 36 days
Took 144 photos of herself at various angles.

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The longest prison strike in history

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Folsom Prison, California, 1970, longest prison strike in the history of the United States, 2,400 prisoners held out in their cells for 19 days without sustenance.

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The book the Joy of Sex

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illustrated sex manual by Alex Comfort, M.D., Ph.D., first published in 1972

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Andy Warhol

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see quiz

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The ERA

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Stated that the equality of rights, under the law, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any states on account of sex.

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Gloria Steinhem

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Argued that “The first problem for all us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn”

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T or F document 4 discusses the prejudice women faced in the late 1960’s

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TRUE

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Shirley Chisholm (Gorn)

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she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first major party African-American candidate for President of the United States.

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The Allotment Act

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An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians on the various reservations.

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Gloria Steinhem (Gorn)

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Argued that “The first problem for all us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn”

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Pop Art Term

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Term Pop Art was coined in Great Britain.
During the early 1950’s several London artists transformed the artifacts and mass media imagery of American popular culture into critical, satirical artworks
Was a response to an excess of American postwar exports of consumer goods, movies, magazines, comics, and advertising

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The Court Case Roe v Wade

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Ruled that they could prohibit abortions, however only in the last three months of pregnancy

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Betty Friedman

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wrote “THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE”

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60’s and 70’s fashion trends

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Most of the fashion trends of the 60’s and 70’s DID challenge traditional constructs.

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In 1978 the Supreme Court ruled that the news media do not have
guaranteed rights of access to jails and prisons T or F

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TRUE

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Spiral Jetty

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Represented America’s environmentally destructive romance with technology and science. Political chaos.

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Dior’s New Look The New Look

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re-affirmed society’s return to traditional notions of “male” and “female”.

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What did President Johnson sign in 1967

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an executive order banning sex discrimination in federally connected employment.

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Orange Diaster

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Painting by Andy Warhol, illustrated 15 repeated electric chairs.

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George Jackson

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Served time in Soledad California, for a 70.00 robbery, during this time he became a revolutionary
In fact, “ his book Soledad Brother became one of the most widely read books of black militancy in the United States-by prisoners, by black people, by white people-perhaps this ensured he would not last.”
Indeed, he would not. In August of 1971, he was shot in the back by guards at San Quentin prison.

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Why did 150 Navajos meet in the spring of 1969?

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to declare that the strip mining would pollute the water and the air, destroy the grazen land for livestock, use up their scarce water resources.

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W.I.T.C.H

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Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
Its members were known to dress up like the stereotypical “witch”.

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World Trade Center Towers

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Built by Minoru Yamasak.

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Akwensasne Notes

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a Mohawk Nation newspaper, “flaming with the spirit of defiance.” Newspaper had articles, poetry, editorials.

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What did a group called Radical women protest in the fall of 1968

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Miss America Pageant
Symbolic more which was to portray to the nation and the world that women had questioned and would continue to question their status, role in society.

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Pine Ridge Reservation

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“ Several hundred Oglala Sioux and friends returned to the village of Wounded Knee to occupy it as a symbol of the demand for Indian land, Indian rights.”

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AIM

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American Indian Movement.

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Our Bodies Ourselves

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A book that contained an enormous amount of practical information, on women’s anatomy, on sexuality, and sexual relationships, on lesbianism, on nutrition, and health, on rape, self-defense, venereal disease, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and child birth, and menopause.

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The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

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Betye Saar. Old black woman holding a broom and rifle.