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GALLERY HANDOUT: Use the posters around the room to answer the following questions.
Poster A: The Counterculture
1. What two movements did the Counterculture grow out of?

2. How did the civil rights movement contribute the Counterculture?

Poster B: The Beatles
1. What generation had an enormous influence on American society?

2. What type of music dominated the decade?

3. In a commune, what did people share?

Poster C: Haight-Ashbury
1. In what city was the center of the counter culture?

2. What did Timothy Leary encourage young people to do?

Poster D: Rock star drug over doses
1. Why did many people become disappointed with the Counterculture?

2. What key icons died by the late 1960s? How did they die?

Poster E: Feminism
1. What movement inspired womens desires to be treated better in society?

2. What did Gloria Steinem cofound?

Poster F: Phyllis Schlafly
1. Who was Phyllis Schlafly?

2. She was current feminism as an attack on what?

Poster G: Hispanic Immigrants
1. What was the the bracero program?

2. When did immigration from Latin America surged?

Poster H: Cesar Chavez
1. What movement influenced the Latinos to begin fighting for their rights?

2. Why did the UFW boycott purchasing grapes?

Poster I: American Indian Movement
1. What island did Native Americans take over?

2. Where did two AIM members die in a protest for better living condition on reservations?


3. What did the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 do?
Poster J: Earth Day
1. What did Rachel Carsons Silent Spring focus on?

2. Some research suggests that DDT has caused what?


3. When was the first celebrated Earth Day?

Poster K: Environmentalism
1. What was the purpose of the EPA? When was it founded and under what president?


2. What did the Clean Water Act do? When was it passed?

Poster L: Environmental Controversy
1. What crises in the late 1970s increased the publics environmental concern?


2. Why did conservatives oppose environmental regulation?


Summarizing questions:

1. Explain why this activity connects with the learning goals.










2. How did the counterculture and expanding rights revolution of the 1960s and 1970s influence US society?