Era of Social Change

The unofficial capital of the counterculture movement was:

• New York City

• Haight-Ashbury

• Woodstock

A prominent leader of the effort to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment:

• Phyllis Schlafly

• Gloria Steinam

• Betty Friedan

In 1970, Texan José Angel Gutierrez established the political force known as

• United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

• Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants)

• La Raza Unida (the United People party

The group whose quest for land rights, better living conditions and more cultural respect often led to clashes with the government was

• the American Indian Movement (AIM)

• the National Organization of Women (NOW)

• the counterculture

During the 1960s, the Latino population in the United States grew to about

• 3 million

• 6 million

• 9 million

• 12 million

César Chávez's strategy for improving work conditions for farm laborers was to:

• organize a sit-down strike

• improve public education

• elect more supportive politicians

• form a union

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Native Americans won various victories in court granting them:

• voting rights

• land rights

• better housing

• equal employment opportunities

César Chávez used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American:

• voters

• students

• farm workers

• factory workers

Whom did conservatives blame for the increasing permissiveness in American society?

• women and minorities

• democrats

• the Beatles

• campus rebels and the counterculture

The members of the counterculture movement were mostly

• entertainers, artists, and musicians

• Latinos and Native Americans

• poor urban youths

• white, middle-class college youths