U.s. History Credit 9

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What is title IX for woman? Why was it created?

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Intercollegiate women's basketball game: 1972 Title IX of the Higher Education Act prohibits gender discrimination in all areas of higher education including athletics.

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What is affirmative action? When and why was it passed? &, in what ways did it fail?

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Affirmative Action Programs were designed to help make up for past discrimination against these groups. March 6 1961, government employers " not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin."

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Why was the US involved in the Vietnam War?

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Kennedy hoped that Aiding South Vietnam would be a sign of continued US resolve and strength

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What was the Tet Offensive? Why did it make the US look bad? Why does it lead to increased dissatisfaction with the war in Vietnam?

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The Tet Offensive show. No parts of South Vietnam was safe from attack. This shattered many peoples believes that communist forces were weakening and that's the US would win the war.

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Why does Johnson continue to escalate the war in Vietnam? What attempts does he make to end the war?

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Johnson agreed it was time to try to negotiate with North Vietnam, Johnson announced he would seek a peace agreement to end the war.

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Why was the 1968 election so important? What does it show about the divisions that existed in the u.s.?

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In May 1968 delegates from North Vietnam and the United States Met in Paris. Immediately the talks stalled over two issues. The United States wanted all NVA troops out of South Vietnam, and North Vietnam would not accept a temporary South Vietnam government that included the United States backed president, Nguyen Van Thieu.

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What was the 26th Amendment? Why did it finally get passed in 1971?

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Passed in 1971, the amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Many of McGovern's supporters were young people.

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What is the War Powers Act of 1973? Why did Congress pass it?

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This law Reaffirms congress's constitutional right to declare war. It sets a 60-day limit on the presidental commitment of U.S.

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What effects did the civil rights movement have on other groups such as women, Tucanos, Native Americans, etc?

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All stood up against social, political, and economic inequality in the 1960s. At the same time a youthful counterculture turned its back on mainstream society in search of a new way in life.

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What did women gain from the women's movement? What was lower to change? Why did the movement not gain as much momentum as a civil rights movement?

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After the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920, the organized movement for women's rights declined.

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How do women's earnings and job compared to men, during this time?

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Woman in 1963 and only 60% on what men earned. One reason for the difference was that most women worked in service jobs, such as retail sales, clerical work, and domestic service.

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Who were the National Farmworkers / United Farmworkers (UFW)? What did they want? Were they effective? Why or why not?

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A union of Mexican American farm workers. They want a 15% increase in their hourly wages.

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Who were Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez? Why are they important?

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Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, co-founders of the National Farm Workers Association, a union of Mexican American farmworkers, agreed to help.

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How did immigration laws change drastically in the 1960s from previous decades?

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1965, This act repealed the National-Origin immigration quotas in effect since 1924 and set hemisphere based quotas instead. Priority was given to those applicants with relatives already in the United States and possessing desired job skills.

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How did smallpox get eradicated? Why was this so important to history?

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Smallpox eradication was accomplished with a combination of focused surveillance quickly identifying new smallpox cases and ring vaccination. "Ring vaccination" meant that anyone who could have been exposed to a smallpox patient was tracked down and vaccinated as quickly as possible.

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How and why did television affect public opinion about the Vietnam War?

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Television coverage brought scenes of Fire-Fights and burning villages into Americans living rooms. For this reason, the Vietnam war has been called the first living room war. The US government allowed television crew to cover the war, hoping television report which show Americans that United States forces were making progress in Vietnam. But too many Americans, the images they saw on television contradicted the optimistic government reports on the progress of the war.

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Explain why there is increasing opposition to the Vietnam War. What were some of the ways people showed their discontent with the war and the government?

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As the war progressed people, both in the US and in Australia, started to find out that the US had violated the "1954 Geneva Agreements in Indochina" and also international law and that the war was illegal as was the "Republic of South Vietnam" which the US supported.

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What was the counterculture? How and why did it begin? What were they responding to?

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The counter culture of the 1960s was a rebellion of teens and young adults against mainstream American society. These young Americans, called hippies, believed that societies values were hollow and its priorities were misplaced

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Discuss how the advances of the civil rights movement of African American in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s influence the strategies of American Indians (Native Americans), and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities

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Indians were not American citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment with the right to vote. The Hispanic essay begins in 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted U.S. citizenship to those who did not wish to retain their Mexican citizenship, and the Asian essay begins in 1878 when a federal court upheld the bar against naturalizing Chinese immigrants. The African American and American Indian essays end in 1965 when Congress passed the Voting Rights Act and the emphasis in voting rights changed from an individual right to one of fair representation. The Hispanic and Asian American essays end in 1975 when Congress extended protection of the Voting Rights Act to language minorities.