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25 Cards in this Set
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Cesar Chavez |
a Mexican-American farm worker, was trying to organize a union for California’s mostly Spanish-speaking farm workers. |
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Braceros |
or temporary laborers, during the 1940s and 1950s. |
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Barrio |
Spanish-speaking neighborhoods. |
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Dolores Huerta |
established the National Farm Workers Association. |
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United Farm Workers Organizing Committee |
a labor union formed in 1966 to seek higher wages and better working conditions for Mexican-American farm workers in California. |
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Edward Roybal |
, the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) helped elect Los Angeles politician to the House of Representatives. |
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Joseph Montoya |
one Hispanic senator was elected of New Mexico. |
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Jose Angel Gutierrez |
sought to create an independent Latino political movement. |
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La Raza Unida |
Latino political organization founded in 1970 by José Angel Gutiérrez. |
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Reies Tijerina |
founded the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants) to help reclaim U. S. land taken from Mexican landholders in the 19th century. |
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American Indian Movement |
a frequently militant organization that was formed in 1968 to work for Native American Rights. |
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Russell Means |
organized the “Trail of Broken Treaties”march in Washington, D. C., to protest the U. S. government’s treaty violations throughout history. |
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Betty Friedan |
had a loving husband, healthy children, and a house in the suburbs.the experts doctors, psychologists, and women’s magazines that was all a woman needed to be fulfilled. |
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Feminism |
the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men. |
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The Feminine Mystique |
which captured the very discontent that many women were feeling, quickly became a best-seller and helped to galvanize women across the country. |
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National Organization for Women |
an organization founded in 1966 to pursue feminist goals, such as better childcare facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination. |
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Gloria Steinem |
a journalist, political activist, and ardent supporter of the women’s liberation movement, made her voice heard on the subjects of feminism and equality. |
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Roe v. Wade |
that women do have the right to choose an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
a proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of sex. |
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Phyllis Schlafly |
along with conservative religious groups, political organizations, and many anti-feminists, felt that the ERA would lead to “a parade of horribles,”such as the drafting of women, the end of laws protecting homemakers, the end of a husband’s responsibility to provide for his family, and same-sex marriages. |
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Counterculture |
the culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960s, seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love, and individual freedom. |
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Haight-Ashbury |
a San Francisco district that became the “capital” of the hippie counterculture during the 1960s. |
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Andy Warhol |
Pop artists, led by, attempted to bring art into the mainstream. Pop art was characterized by bright, simple, commercial-looking images often depicting everyday life. |
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The Beatles |
a British band that had an enormous influence on popular music in the 1960s. |
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Woodstock |
a free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969. |