Starter quiz
- What is a drug or object that prevents a woman from becoming pregnant called?
- 'contraceptive' ✓
- Which of the following individuals helped to inspire the Feminist Movement?
- Betty Friedan ✓
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Richard Nixon
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- Which Supreme Court case legalised abortion in the USA?
- Plessy v. Fergusson
- Brown v. Board
- Roe v. Wade ✓
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- Which group threw products such as mops, pans, high heels and bras into 'freedom trash cans'?
- Libbers
- NOW
- Stop ERA ✓
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- In 1975, the average female income was what percentage of the average male income?
- 50%
- 60% ✓
- 70%
- 80%
- 100%
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Women gained the right to vote in all parts of the USA.
- 2⇔Women were encouraged to work in factories during WW2.
- 3⇔Many women returned to housework and traditional 'female' jobs.
- 4⇔'The Feminine Mystique' was published.
- 5⇔Shirley Chisholm ran for president.
- 6⇔Roe v. Wade.
Exit quiz
- What is a second class citizen?
- someone who is poorer than most other people
- someone who is richer than most other people
- someone who is not given the same rights and opportunities as other people ✓
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- What were the segregationist laws in the US South known as?
- 'Jim Crow laws' ✓
- Out of a total of 531, how many members of Congress were female in 1955?
- 0
- 15 ✓
- 51
- 110
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- What happened to the number of registered African American voters in the South in the years immediately after the Voting Rights Act was passed?
- decreased
- remained the same
- increased ✓
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- Which examples best demonstrate that new laws did not always change the views of those who opposed equality?
- Phyllis Schlafly successfully led the Stop ERA campaign. ✓
- Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress in 1969.
- The 1964 Civil Rights Act banned discrimination on the basis of race and sex.
- Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 ✓
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
- 1⇔Brown v. Board of Education
- 2⇔Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 3⇔Equal Pay Act
- 4⇔Voting Rights Act
- 5⇔Assassination of Martin Luther King
- 6⇔Roe v. Wade
- 7⇔ERA defeated
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Key learning points
- Many women and African Americans felt like second class citizens.
- Women and African Americans benefitted from changes in the law in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
- Some new laws were poorly enforced.
- Some groups continued to oppose equality for women and African Americans.
Common misconception
New laws immediately improved the lives of women and African Americans.
Poor enforcement and unchanged attitudes undermined the impact of some changes in the law.
Keywords
Second class citizen - someone who is not given the same rights and opportunities as other people in a society, usually because they belong to a particular group
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