1. Chapter 21 Vocabulary

2.  Group that adopts values that run “counter” to the mainstream.  Valued youth, spontaneity, and freedom of expression.  Sometimes called “hippies “ they promoted love, peace, and freedom  Experimented with new styles of clothing and music, drugs, and free attitudes towards sex.

3.  Theory of political, social, and economic equality for men and women.

4.  Author of “The Feminine Mystique,” a book that helped inspire the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s.

5.  National Organization for Women  Est. by Betty Friedan  Dedicated to winning true equality for all women.

6.  Equal Rights Amendment  Would have guaranteed gender equality under the law.  Passed in congress, but did not become an amendment because not enough states ratified it.

7.  Co-founded Ms. Magazine, a feminist magazine.  Its title was meant to protest the social custom identifying women by marital status (Mrs. v Miss)

8.  Conservative political activist who denounced women’s liberation as “a total assault on family, marriage, and children.”  Worked to defeat the ERA.

9.  Supreme Court decision that assured women the right to legal abortions.

10.  The most influential Latino activist  Fought for rights for migrant farm workers

11.  Farm workers’ union organized by Cesar Chavez in 1962.  Implemented a workers’ strike and consumer boycott of grapes.

12.  An activist group focused on expanding civil rights for Native Americans.  Securing of land, legal rights and self-government

13.  Feb. 1973 AIM took over the village of Wounded Knee to force gov’t to investigate condition of Indian Reservations  Ends in May when US agrees to reexamine treaty rights

14.  A response to growing environmental concerns, this was a nationwide protest calling for greater environmental protections.

15.  Federal agency devoted to protecting the “entire ecological chain.”  Cleaned up and protected the environment as well as limited and eliminating pollutants that posed a risk to public health.