White Plains Public Schools



Modern Rights Movement Review

US History/E. Napp Name: __________________

Activity 1: Matching

|1. In 1963, ______ wrote a book entitled The Feminine Mystique. It | |

|questioned the common assumption that women were happiest at home. |Civil Rights Act (1964) |

|She argued that women were not the “weaker sex” but rather as capable |_______ |

|as men. | |

|2. In 1966, the author of The Feminine Mystique and other feminist | |

|leaders formed the _____. Its goals included equal pay for equal |Title IX (1972) |

|work, day-care centers for children of working mothers, and the |______ |

|passage of antidiscrimination laws. | |

|3. Although the main purpose of the ______ was to protect the civil | |

|rights of African Americans, one clause made it illegal for employers |Betty Friedan |

|to discriminate on the basis of sex. |_______ |

|4. The ______ required equal pay for equal work and banned | |

|discriminatory practices in hiring, firing, promotions, and working | |

|conditions. Despite this act, however, many fully qualified women |Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) |

|have not achieved the same earning power as men. |_______ |

|5. Amendments to an education act included a provision known as | |

|______. Its purpose was to promote equal treatment in schools for | |

|female members of the staff and students. An important consequence |National Organization for Women (NOW) |

|was that schools and colleges greatly increased their sports programs |_______ |

|for girls and young women. | |

|6. In 1972, Congress proposed the ______ to the Constitution. It | |

|provided: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or |Equality |

|abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.” The |_______ |

|amendment failed to win support from the required 38 states. | |

|7. In ______, the Supreme Court decided that a Texas law prohibiting | |

|abortion was unconstitutional because it violated a woman’s |Equal Employment Opportunity Act (1972) |

|constitutional right to privacy. |_______ |

|8. A major goal of the women’s movement during the 1960s and 1970s was|Earning |

|to provide ______ of opportunity. |_______ |

|9. Despite significant gains, many American women still do not have |Vote |

|the same ______ power as men. |_______ |

|10. Earlier women’s movements had focused on winning the rights to |Roe v. Wade (1973) |

|manage their own lives and property and the right to ______ or |_______ |

|suffrage – granted in the Nineteenth Amendment. | |

Activity 2: Matching

|1. Mexican Americans organized a movement to end discriminatory | |

|practices against them – particularly in agricultural work. Their |Miranda v. Arizona (1966) |

|gifted and determined leader was a labor organizer named ______. |_______ |

|2. The _______ was a strong union representing migrant farm workers. | |

|It conducted strikes against California grape growers and urged |Mapp v. Ohio (1961) |

|Americans to boycott California grapes. |_______ |

|3. Inspired by the civil rights movement, ______ from various | |

|reservations also joined forces to improve their lives by regaining |Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) |

|lost rights and freedoms. |_______ |

|4. Native Americans wanted less supervision by the _____ and greater | |

|freedom for Native Americans to manage reservation life. |United Farm Workers (UFW) |

| |_______ |

|5. In 1972, a radical group, the ______ occupied BIA offices in | |

|Washington, D.C. and demanded that the government honor historic | |

|U.S.-Indian treaties. In 1973, more than 200 armed members of this | |

|group took control of Wounded Knee on a Sioux reservation in South |César Chávez |

|Dakota. (It had been the 1890 site of a massacre of Indians by U.S. |_______ |

|troops.) | |

|6. The goal of the current federal policy is to give Native Americans | |

|more ______ over their own affairs through increased self-government |Native Americans |

|and economic development. |_______ |

|7. Thus, the 1980s and early 1990s witnessed the building of resorts | |

|and ______ on Indian lands even in states such as Connecticut, where |Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) |

|casinos were illegal. |______ |

|8. In _______, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled| |

|that evidence wrongly obtained by the police could not be admitted |American Indian Movement (AIM) |

|during the suspect’s trial. The case involved the Fourth Amendment’s |______ |

|protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” | |

|9. In _______, the Court ruled that a state must provide lawyers for |Control |

|poor defendants in all criminal cases. |______ |

|10. In ______, the Court ruled that “prior to any questioning, the | |

|person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any | |

|statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that | |

|he has a right to the presence of an attorney.” These “Miranda |Gambling Casinos |

|rights” are now routinely read to arrested suspects by the police |_______ |

|before questioning. | |

Activity 3: Multiple-Choice

|1. Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court was considered | 6. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was an influential book in |

|“activist” because of its |the 1960s because it |

|reluctance to overturn state laws |helped strengthen family values |

|insistence on restricting freedom of speech to spoken words |led directly to the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment |

|expansion of individual rights in criminal cases |energized a new women’s rights movement |

|refusal to reconsider the issues of the Plessy v. Ferguson case |reinforced the importance of women’s traditional roles |

| | |

|2. The decisions of the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. |7. The goal of current Federal Government policies toward Native |

|Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Escobedo v. Illinois all advanced |Americans is to |

|the |make Native Americans more dependent on the Federal Government |

|voting rights of minorities |give the states more control over Native American affairs |

|guarantees of free speech and press |eliminate tribal ties and customs |

|principle of separation of church and state |give Native Americans more control over their own affair |

|rights of accused persons | |

| |8. A study of the women’s movement in the United States would show |

|3. Cesar Chavez created the United Farm Workers Organization Committee|that |

|(UFWOC) in 1966 primarily to |the National Government granted rights to women long before state |

|secure voting rights for Mexican Americans |governments did |

|improve working conditions for migrant laborers |the gains made by women usually took considerable periods of time |

|provide legal assistance to illegal aliens |women received voting rights before African-American males did |

|increase farm income |wartime employment slowed progress toward gender equality |

| | |

|4. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, and the |9. One way in which the feminist movement of the late 1960s and early |

|Americans with Disabilities Act were government efforts to |1970s is similar to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s |

|eliminate restrictions on immigration |is that both |

|end discrimination against various groups |(1) used public demonstrations and protests to |

|provide federal aid for children |draw attention to their goals |

|require equal treatment of men and woman |(2) opposed Supreme Court decisions expanding |

| |the rights of the accused |

|5. The Equal Pay Act, the Title IX education amendment, and the |(3) refused support from churches and religious |

|proposed Equal Rights amendment (ERA) were primarily efforts to |leaders |

|improve the status of |(4) focused on securing equal access to housing |

|African Americans | |

|Native American Indians | |

|migrant workers | |

|women | |

| | |

Activity 4:

Reading: Excerpt from The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

“The suburban housewife – she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife – freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home. She had found true feminine fulfillment. As a housewife and mother, she was respected as a full and equal partner to man in his world. She was free to choose automobiles, clothes, appliances, supermarkets; she had everything that women ever dreamed of.

In the fifteen years after World War II, this mystique of feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core of contemporary American culture. Millions of women lived their lives in the image of those pretty pictures of the American suburban housewife, kissing their husbands goodbye in front of the picture window, depositing their station wagonsful of children at school, and smiling as they ran the new electric waxer over the spotless kitchen floor. They baked their own bread, sewed their own and their children’s clothes, kept their new washing machines and dryers running all day. They changed the sheets on the beds twice a week instead of once, took the rughoolag class in adult education, and pitied their poor frustrated mothers, who had dreamed of having a career. Their only dream was to be perfect wives and mothers; their highest ambition to have five children and a beautiful house, their only fight to get and keep their husbands. They had no thought for the unfeminine problems of the world outside the home; they wanted the men to make the major decisions. They gloried in their role as women, and wrote proudly on the census blank: ‘Occupation: housewife.’

If a woman had a problem in the 1950’s and 1960’s, she knew that something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it. If she tried to tell her husband, he didn’t understand what she was talking about. She did not really understand it herself…

Gradually I came to realize that the problem that has no name was shared by countless women in America. Just what was this problem that has no name? What were the words women used when they tried to express it? Sometimes a woman would say ‘I feel empty somehow . . . incomplete.’ Or she would say, ‘I feel as if I don’t exist.’”

Questions:

1- Why was the suburban housewife the envy of women all over the world? ________________________________________________________________________

2- How did millions of women live their lives? ________________________________________________________________________

3- What did many of these women have no thought of? ________________________________________________________________________

4- What did a woman who had a problem believe the problem was? ________________________________________________________________________

5- What was this problem that had no name? ________________________________________________________________________

6- How did women express this problem? ________________________________________________________________________

7- What do you think the solution to this problem was? ________________________________________________________________________

Activity 5: Cartoon Analysis

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Questions:

What is the college football player sitting on?

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What is written on the tennis player’s bag? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What does the college football player say? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What is the meaning of his statement? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What is Title IX? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Is Title IX responsible for the tennis player’s discontinued sport? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What is responsible for the tennis player’s discontinued sport? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Why might some people believe the college football player? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Why might some people oppose Title IX? _____________________________________________________________________________________

Why would some people support Title IX? _____________________________________________________________________________________

What are your opinions on Title IX? Explain your answer. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activity 5: Image Analysis

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Questions:

1- What is the message of the first poster? ________________________________________________________________________

2- What is the message of the second poster? ________________________________________________________________________

3- What is the message of the third poster? ________________________________________________________________________

4- Why do you think some American women in the 1970s participated in this women’s rights protest? ________________________________________________________________________

5- Do you agree with the messages written on the posters? ________________________________________________________________________

6- Explain either your defense of the protesters’ messages or your criticism of the protesters’ messages. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7- How has American society changed since this protest? ______________________________________________________________________

8- How has American society remained the same since this protest? ________________________________________________________________________

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