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1950s Women 50s-70s Counter- Culture/ Vietnam 1970s Leave It to Werner 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Civil Rights
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Named after the beat and movement of the music itself
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Rock N’ Roll
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Elvis Presley was controversial for this in the 1950s
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Shaking his hips to the beat
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Provided college tuition and home loans for veterans of WWII returning from war
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GI Bill What did 50 Cent say to his Grandma?
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Some of the houses during this decade, especially in Levittown, NY, were nick-named this because of their shape
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“cookie cutters”
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Children who were not brought up in this time period that did not conform to society or had bad home lives usually became
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Juvenile Delinquents
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Women were stereotypically this during the 1950s instead of in the job force
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Housewives
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The idea that women should have political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights equal to those of men
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Feminism
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In 1972, the 27th this amendment was proposed to give women equal rights
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
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Women fought for reproductive rights in the famous 1973 supreme court case
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Roe v. Wade
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This woman led the feminist movement with her creation of the National Organization of Women and the publication of The Feminine Mystique
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Bettie Friedan
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Leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s with his “Freedom Now,” SCLC,non-violent approach
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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This group of students integrated a High School in Arkansas in 1957
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Little Rock Nine
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A Chicago AA young boy who said, “Bye baby” to a white worker while in Mississippi and was lynched
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Emit Till
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Group of white and AA young people who rode to the US South (Alabama) to protest the segregation of the bus station terminals
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Freedom Riders
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First AA man to attend Mississippi who was shot and inspired the last great marches of the Civil Rights Movement-the March Against Fear
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James Meredith
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Early form of 1950s counterculture found in urban cities with the belief of “why conform?”
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The Beat Movement
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1960s-1970s counter- culture that believed in free love and wore alternative hairstyles and clothing lines
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Hippies
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Malcolm X led the organization of Black Muslims, also known as
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The Nation of Islam
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SNCC member who chanted “Black Power!” “Black Power!” during the March Against Fear
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Stokeley Carmichael
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Sometimes seen as militant for their actions with firearms, the Black Panthers operated out of this west coast city
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Oakland, CA
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Popular music of the “me” generation that featured a big ball, groovy moves, and John Travolta
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DISCO!!!!
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This scandal in political corruption and sabotage cost Americans a lot of faith in their governemnt
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Watergate Scandal
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The real name of “Deep Throat,” who fed FBI information to the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
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W. Mark Felt
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Vice-President of Richard M. Nixon who resigns, along with Nixon-allowing Gerald Ford to rise to the Presidency
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Spiro Agnew
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Students protesting about US troop involvement in Cambodia resulted in four deaths at this University
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Kent State University
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The big boom after WWII where a lot of families began having children
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Baby Boom(ers)
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Hippie Culture was best embodied by the new genre of psychedelic rock music and the artists who exemplified this era. Name 2 popular British bands that made “experimented” with this music.
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The Beatles and The Rolling Stones
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In D2: Team USA plays this team for the championship even though this country does not officially have an under-age Goodwill Games team
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Iceland
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What was Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver’s brother’s name in the 1950s sitcom: Leave It to Beaver
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Wally!!!
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Name one of the two actors that popularized the counter-culture hit Easy Rider
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Dennis Hopper And Peter Fonda
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Make your wager
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The counter- culture began in the US as a reaction against what 3 things
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1) Social Norms of the 1950s 2) Segregation in the Deep South 3) Vietnam War
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