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16 Heritage Studies5
The Rise of Counterculture
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| deficit | situation resulting from an excess of spending and a lack of incoming funds |
| filibuster | block or delay legislating a bill by making long speeches |
| guerilla warfare | combat such as attacks, raids, sabotage, or ambush by small groups of civilians, type of attacks the New Left used against the United States government |
| inflation | increase in the prices of goods at the same time that the purchasing value of money decreases |
| silent majority | President Nixon’s term for most Americans who rarely expressed their moderate political views |
| Stokely Carmichael | person who caused race riots to erupt |
| Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael | two men promoted violence in the form of race riots and said that black people should use force to gain power over white people |
| Jimmy Carter | president who hesitated to support US allies’ governments that often fell and were replaced with Soviet backed governments |
| Gerald Ford | president who pardoned Nixon for crimes that he committed while president of the United States |
| Betty Friedan | person who launched the feminist movement |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | civil rights leader who said that protests against segregation and injustice should be nonviolent |
| Richard Nixon | president who issued an executive order for prices and wages to be frozen for three months in hopes to stop inflation |
| New Left | radical political movement that wanted social reforms and changes in government and politics |
| old liberals and the New Left | names of the groups that resulted after the liberals split during the 1960s |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed racial segregation by opening public places, schools, and employment to all races |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | act passed by Congress to remove barriers that kept black citizens from voting |
| the Great Society | name of the national program led by President Johnson to eliminate poverty |
| filibuster | to block or delay legislating a bill by making long speeches |
| Tet Offensive | failed surprise attack on South Vietnam |
| abortion | Supreme Court made legal by claiming that the Constitution gave a right to privacy |
| Explain the peace agreement between the United States and North Vietnam. | The North Vietnamese agreed to return American prisoners of war. The United States agreed to pull out of North Vietnam. |
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