Part 2 - What influenced the political landscape? (Liberalism)

Question 1

Who was president during Liberalism?

Answer 1

John F Kennedy

Question 2

What did Liberal mean to Kennedy?

Answer 2

Flexible, progressive and concerned about the welfare of Americans

Question 3

Why did Republicans and Democrats like Liberalism?

Answer 3

It had the same values as the American Dream

Question 4

What were Liberals, normally?

Answer 4

Middle Class, educated and wealthy

Question 5

What did Liberals want?

Answer 5

Equality, civil rights and social welfare

Question 6

What did Liberals believe about government intervention?

Answer 6

It would improve the errors of society

Question 7

What idea did Liberal politicians produce?

Answer 7

Positive Discrimination for the Five Minorities

Question 8

What is Positive Discrimination?

Answer 8

Automatic favouring of under represented individuals through employment, education, social welfare to reduce inequality

Question 9

Who were the Five Minorities?

Answer 9

American Indians, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Women

Question 10

What increased in the 1960s?

Answer 10

Liberal support, Civil rights, Equal opportunities, and legalising abortion

Question 11

What groups were involved in the Counter Culture?

Answer 11

Hippies and Radical Student Groups

Question 12

What was a Radical Student group?

Answer 12

Students for a Democratic Society

Question 13

How were young people trying to remake society?

Answer 13

Through rejecting the traditional norms and values

Question 14

What did the youngsters believe?

Answer 14

By changing the culture, people will begin to live and behave differently

Question 15

What was the conflict between the counter culture?

Answer 15

2 Diff groups that used different methods aiming for a different society

Question 16

What did Hippies want?

Answer 16

To loosen the tight family system and live in a communal society

Question 17

What is a communal society?

Answer 17

One where possessions and properties are shared, as everyone lives and works together

Question 18

Why did Hippies contradict the American Dream?

Answer 18

They believed in a peaceful way of living, instead of working hard

Question 19

How were Hippies wild?

Answer 19

They smoked dope and drugs, and were sexually active and free

Question 20

When was the most famous hippie gathering?

Answer 20

1960s, Woodstock Festival

Question 21

What happened in Woodstock Festival?

Answer 21

Free drugs, heavy music, sexual freedom everywhere and readily available

Question 22

How many participated in the Woodstock Festival?

Answer 22

400,000 to 500,000 people

Question 23

What was a good thing about Hippies?

Answer 23

Although they wanted change in society, they preferred to live separate from others in communal groups

Question 24

What did Radical Student Groups want?

Answer 24

To have a more equal world, closer to their view of the American Dream

Question 25

What did SDS's Port Huron statement denounce?

Answer 25

That conventional politics had forgotten that all men are created equal, and urged a return to equality

Question 26

What did the SDS reject?

Answer 26

Racism, communism, war

Question 27

What did The Free Speech Movement organise?

Answer 27

A campaign on the University of California Campus in 1964

Question 28

What happened in the Uni of Cali Campaign?

Answer 28

Non violent protest through sit-ins to push for free speech on campus

Question 29

What happened over the 2 months the campaign ran?

Answer 29

Over 700 students arrested for sit ins and violence made a gradual appearance

Question 30

Why had violence occured during the campaign?

Answer 30

There was little effect using peaceful protest methods

Question 31

What was the negative outcome of the Campaign for the police?

Answer 31

Shot four unarmed students, injured 9

Question 32

What happened as a result of the police brutality on campus?

Answer 32

Small radical student groups plants bombs outside an army research base = Killed one researcher, injured 4 and caused $60 million of damage

Question 33

Who was the biggest opposition to counter culture?

Answer 33

Older, conservative Americans

Question 34

Why did older Americans reject Counter culture?

Answer 34

Challenged family, American dream, Christian and Patriotic values

Question 35

What did the Republicans and Democrats start to campaign?

Answer 35

The 'New Right' to restore law and order and traditional values

Question 36

Why did they campaign the 'New Right'

Answer 36

Protest violence showed little sign of dying down

Question 37

When did Nixon campaign for president?

Answer 37

3rd November 1969

Question 38

What did Nixon campaign on?

Answer 38

New Right policies

Question 39

Why did Americans support Nixon?

Answer 39

They wanted to unite society back together again

Question 40

Who also supported Nixon?

Answer 40

Other young people that wanted change but weren't as radical as Hippies and the SDS

Question 41

What happened in the 1970s?

Answer 41

Religious groups held campus campaigns to preach the return to traditional famous values

Question 42

What did preachers want to move away from?

Answer 42

Liberal policies like abortion, contraception, homosexuality

Question 43

Who was Bill Bright?

Answer 43

An evangelical preacher of 'Campus Crusade for Christ'

Question 44

What did Bill Bright do?

Answer 44

Preach on campuses all over USA like California, extremely radical there