The US Feminist Movement in the 1960s and 1970s | History

Starter quiz

What was the name of the benefits system which provided payments to vulnerable groups such as the elderly or unemployed in the USA?

'social security' ✓
Match each set of reforms to the president who introduced them.

New Deal

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Franklin D Roosevelt ✓

Fair Deal

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Harry S Truman ✓

New Frontier

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John F Kennedy ✓

Great Society

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Lyndon B Johnson ✓
How did LBJ change the minimum wage?

abolished it

reduced it from $1.50 to$ 0.50

increased it from $1.25 to$ 1.40 ✓
Which American president successfully introduced Medicare?

Franklin D Roosevelt

Harry S Truman

Dwight D Eisenhower

John F Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson ✓
Which statement about the New Frontier and Great Society is most accurate?

They focused on many areas including civil rights, poverty and the environment. ✓

They only focused on poverty and civil rights.

They only focused on civil rights.

They only focused on military investment.
Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

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Great Depression began

2

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New Deal introduced

3

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End of WW2

4

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Fair Deal introduced

5

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New Frontier introduced

6

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JFK assassinated

7

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Great Society introduced

What is a medical operation to end a pregnancy called?

'abortion' ✓
What was the name of the author of 'The Feminine Mystique'?

'Betty Friedan' ✓
What did the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case legalise?

abortion ✓

contraceptives

gay marriage
Write the missing word. Libbers described products such as high heels, mops, bras and make-up as "instruments of female ______".

'torture' ✓
Which statement about opposition to the ERA is most accurate?

Only men opposed the ERA.

Only women opposed the ERA.

Women and men both opposed the ERA. ✓

Nobody opposed the ERA.
Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

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Presidential Commission on the Status of Women set up

2

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Equal Pay Act

3

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NOW founded

4

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Libbers protest outside the Miss America beauty pageant

5

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Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case

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Significant inequalities between men and women encouraged the development of the Feminist Movement.
Women were granted equality under the law during the 1960s and 70s.
Women gained greater sexual freedoms.
The gender pay gap remained a problem.
Women as well as men opposed some of the changes the Feminist Movement supported.

Only men opposed the Feminist Movement.

The Feminist Movement faced opposition from some women such as Phyllis Schlafly as well as some men.