-USH.7.1 Explain the efforts of groups of African Americans, Native Americans, Latinx, LGBTQ community, and women to assert their social and civic rights in the years following World War II.
-USH.7.6 Identify the problems confronting different minorities during this period of economic and social change and describe the solutions to these problems.
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The Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision started the right-to-life movement, which considers _____ wrong on moral grounds and which works toward having it banned.
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_____ _____ interviewed women who had graduated from college, & who had everything, but who still felt angry and unhappy, then she wrote the Feminine Mystique.
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More women pursued _____ _____ , & mothers working outside the home were more accepted; these are 2 effects of the woman's right movement.
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Phyllis Schlafly was against ERA & she argued that it would take away women’s rights to be exempt from the _____ .
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N.O.W. tried to pass the _____ _____ ______ & its membership rose over 200,000.
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The idea that women and men should be equal (socially, politically, economically) is the basis for _____ .
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Newspaper ads separated jobs by _____ in the 1960s, and this made women angry with the world.
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The income gap between women and men is due to more men working in
_____ - _____ construction and engineering trades & more women working in household service and office occupations.
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Some resistance to the E.R.A. was due to states worrying that the amendment gave federal courts too much power to _____ with state law.
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed _____ _____ based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. This provided a strong legal basis for the women’s movement.
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_____ denied women credit in the 1960s, and this made women angry with the world.
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1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination based on gender, and it provided a strong _____ _____ for the women’s movement.
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By mid-1800s, state law permitted abortion in the early stages of pregnancy, but only to save the life of the _____ .
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Betty Friedan started the _____ _____ for _____ , so she could promote feminist goals.
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Phyllis Schlafly was an _____ of ERA & she argued that it would take away women’s rights to alimony in divorce cases.
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This law made it illegal to pay men more money than women for the same job: Equal _____ _____ .
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Feminine _____ was a book by Betty Friedan that described women would felt unfulfilled, and it created a member base for the feminist movement.
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Supreme Court decision in _____ v. _____ stated that state governments could not regulate abortion in the first 3 months of pregnancy, a time within a woman’s constitutional right to privacy.
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Gloria _____ was a leader for the feminist movement, & she edited the "Ms." magazine which was used by N.O.W. to spread their message.
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_____ IX of the Educational Amendments Act prohibited federally funded schools from discriminating against women in all aspects of school: from admissions to athletics.
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The Equal Rights Amendment had to be ratified by 3/4th of states (38 of 50), or it could not become part of the U.S. _____ .
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1960s, some states adopted more liberal abortion laws, several states allowed abortion if carrying a pregnancy to term might endanger the woman’s mental health or if she was a _____ of rape or incest.
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The second _____ _____ provided women with greater employment opportunities, but afterward many women returned to traditional roles, and the emphasis on families discouraged women from seeking employment.
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The 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments guarantee that rights cannot be denied on account of race, but the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) tried to guarantee that rights not be denied on account of _____ .
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The feminist movement tried to gain the right to make reproductive decisions. This right to _____ was expanded when activists began challenging laws against abortion.
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"Ms." was the name of the _____ that was edited by Gloria Steinem & that was owned by N.O.W.
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