Test 50's and 60's Social History

A 3 day concert in upstate NY, attended by 400,000 people, who dealt with bad weather & shortages, remained nonviolent.

 A new type of music taken from black rhythm and blues that was embraced by American teenagers. 

What organization founded in 1966 original purpose was to patrol black neighborhoods to protect against police brutality

Which one of these rock-n-roll artists was known as "The King" in the 1950's?

In the 1950's, what occupation, which was reinforced by TV and advertising always showed the mother of the family as?

This Supreme Court decision made abortion legal with certain restrictions?

1960’s rock-n-roll artists were inspired to try innovative new sounds  because of what technological change?

Who founded the National Women’s Political Caucus to get women to run for political office & created the magazine “Ms."

  Probably the biggest social change rock-n-roll promoted was?

This group founded by Betty Freidan in 1966 organized women to lobby politicians for women’s rights.

Name given to a small group of Poets and Musicians who challenged the lifestyle of the middle class in the 1950’s.

When large groups in society that want to change the mainstream society and replace it with an alternative lifestyle?

1950’s TV programs reinforced stereotypes of conforming Americans and promoted these specific characteristics.

Mostly young people who rejected mainstream American culture and looked to create an alternative lifestyle were called?

Many hippies "dropped out" of society and joined ______ where they tried to live in harmony with nature.

The symbolic beginning of the counterculture movement to place at this university in 1964?

The most famous Hippie community was in this district of San Francisco where the 1967 Summer of Love took place?

This group of Americans were born directly after WWII and blamed their elders for the problems of the 1960’s?

What type of music was the inspiration for rock-n-roll that was embraced by white, middle class, teenagers of the 1950’s

What book written by JD Sallinger followed the adventures of teenager Holden Caulfield who rebelled against society?

Many bands from England came to the U.S. and introduced Americans to their new brand of music.  What was this known as?

Many artists believed that art had become a slave to the wealthy & created this new type of art to appeal to the masses?

This was the name of a recording company that sponsored African American artists? (based in Detroit)

The term "rock and roll" was first used to describe a musical genre by disc jockey Alan Freed.

What happened at the Rolling Stones concert that crushed the Hippie counterculture movement which promoted peace & love?

One of the best known Pop Art artists was ___who painted oversized Campbell soup cans and rows of Coke bottles.

A new form of Rock-n-Roll that evolved in the 1960’s and sent a political message?

These two words describe the strict ideology in the 1950’s? All Americans were expected to live up to a certain image.

What Harvard professor was fired for not teaching the curriculum after giving LSD to his students?

Betty Friedan’s book that sparked a revival in the Women’s Mov’t by saying how women felt trapped in domestic life?