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Ch. 31 Era of Change
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The term Latino refers to _____________- speaking Americans from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Islands. | Spanish |
| _________ have always made up the largest group of Latinos in the United States. | Mexicans |
| Most of the one million Puerto Ricans who have lived in the U.S. since the 1960s settled in the Northeast, especially _________________ City. | New York |
| ____________ began settling in Miami after a political revolution occurred in their country in 1959. | Cubans |
| Salvadorans and Nicaraguans are among the peoples of the geographical region of ____________________ that came to America in the 1960s to escape political persecution or poverty. | Central America |
| ________________ and Dolores Huerta helped establish the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. | Cesar Chavez |
| In 1966, Cesar Chavez formed ________________________________________ to bargain for better pay and working conditions for farm workers. | UFWOC ( United Farm Workers Organizing Committee) |
| The ________________________________________ funded bilingual and cultural programs for students who did not speak English. | Bilingual Education Act |
| ________________ was an independent Latino political group started by Jose Angel Gutierrez. | La Raza Unida |
| The _________________ was a plan put in place by Eisenhower that moved Native Americans from reservations to cities. | termination policy |
| ________________ was an organization formed by young Native Americans who demanded greater rights and sometimes used violence to obtain their goals. | AIM (American Indian Movement) |
| The _____________________________________ was a 1972 march on Washington, D.C. organized by AIM leader Russell Means that called for the restoration of 110 million acres of land to Native Americans. | Trail of Broken Treaties |
| The _________________________________________________ gave more than 40 million acres and $962 million to native peoples. | Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 |
| __________ is the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men. | Feminism |
| _______________ published the book The Feminine Mystique and helped found NOW. | Betty Friedan |
| The _______________________________ is a law that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| __________________ is an organization founded in 1966 to pursue feminists’ goals, such as better child-care facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination. | NOW (National organization for Women) |
| The ________________________________________ is an organization founded by Gloria Steinem in 1971 to encourage women to seek political office. | National Women’s Political Caucus |
| ______________ is a journalist who founded Ms. magazine, a major voice in the women’s movement. | Gloria Steinem |
| The Court case _______________________ allows women to choose an abortion in the first 3 months of pregnancy. | Roe v. Wade |
| The __________________________________ was a failed amendment that would have guaranteed equality of rights, regardless of sex. | ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) |
| ____________________ founded the Stop-ERA campaign as one of the leading opponents of feminism. | Phyllis Schlafly |
| The ________________________ was a coalition of social conservatives which focused on social, cultural, and moral issues. | New Right |
| The _________________________ refers to an invisible, but very real, resistance to promoting women to top positions. | glass ceiling |
| _________ went from having 19 women in 1975 to 60 in 1997. | Congress |
| Participants in the cultural revolt of the 1960s were called __________________. | hippies |
| ___________ was a Harvard psychology professor who founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, which advocated the legalizing of LSD and marijuana as religious sacraments. | Timothy leary |
| ________ was a 3-day music festival in August 1969 in New York attended by 400,000 people. | Woodstock |
| The political aspect of the counterculture was known as the ________________. | New Left |
| The _______________________ was a radical faction in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that favored the use of violence and terror. | Weathermen |
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