Watergate

A. Break-In/Cover-Up
B. Reform:
1. War Powers Act of 1973
2. Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act
3. Fair Campaign Act of 1974
4. Freedom of Information Act
5. --Attitude Adjustment--

RIGHTS OF NATURE: The Environmental Movement

I. Origins:
A. The Idea: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
B. The Event: The Santa Barbara Spill

II. Effect:

A. Politicizing a Community:
a. GOO
b. Earth Day
B. SF Bay Cons and Dvpt Commission
C. EPA
D. California Environmental Quality Act
E. California Coastal Act of 1976
F. Clean Air Act of 1990
III. Significance

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

TEST TIME AND DATE:
WED, 6/9, 2-4:30 YOU NEED A BLUE BOOK.
FORMAT:
I. Multiple Choice: 23 questions, you answer 20
The questions will come from material covered since the midterm

II. Essay: Two of the following questions will be on the test: you will write on one.

1. How did the U.S. change as a result of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, AND the War in Vietnam? Judging from the nation’s experience of war, can you make some generalization regarding the impact of war on a country?

2. What lasting changes were brought about by Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.?

3. What causes historical change more profoundly, ideas or events? Consider as many examples from the course as yuo need to answer the question effectively.

4. Do individuals matter in history or only larger macro historical events? (use the readings for the course to answer this question)

The Problem with No Name/Making the Personal Political...Second Wave Feminism

Betty Friedan: Feminine Mystique (1963)
--“the problem lay buried"
--Women “could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity,"
--Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
--Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

National Organization for Women:
"to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."
1967: 1000 members
1971: 15,000 members

FREEDOM SUMMER:
"we didn't come down here to work as a maid this summer."

"Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deeply rooted and every much as crippling to the women as the assumptions of white superiority are to the Negro."

LIBERAL VS. RADICAL FEMINISM

RADICAL GROUPS:
SCUM
W.I.T.C.H.
Redstockings
Cell 16

AS A RESULT OF THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT:

1. increased participation of women in politics on all levels

2. Title IX of Educational Amendments Acts of 1972, prohibited colleges from discriminating on basis of sex, requiring schools to fund womens' sports at a comparable level to mens' sports

3. Roe v. Wade: 1973, struck down Texas and Georgia statutes outlawing abortion, saying that states could no longer outlaw abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy

4. Equal Credit Opportunity Commission: in 1974, made it possible for women to get credit in their own name

5. ERA, which passed in Congress, and has to be seen as a victory in one sense, because it did pass in Congress, even though it is not now an amendment, since states did not ratify it in time. Why a victory? Military academies and other military arenas thought it would pass so they began to make changes that helped the position of women in the military

Jack K

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”