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American Dream
Since the founding of America people from different places all over the world have come here for the "American Dream" . This means that anyone, no matter where or what you come from, can acheive a better life. An individual can make their own life and not have to be limited to the life they had when they were born. Category: Immigration -
Baby Boom
1946-1964 was the time of the Baby Boom . There were more babies born during this time than any other time in US history. This many people all in the same generation made big changes in America as they went from elementary children to pre-teens to teenagers and then college all around the same time. Category: Social -
Conservative Movement
Conservativism has always had a few core values in common throughout history: respect for tradition, support of republicanism, preservation of "the rule of law and the Christian religion", and a defense of "western civilization from the challenges of modernist culture and totalitarian goverment". Conservativism has played a big role in American politics since the 1950's. Category: political -
Social Conformity
During the 1950's there was a movement called Socail conformity .This was a time when men were expected to go to work everyday and earn a living to support the family and a woman's place was at home, cooking, cleaning and taking care of the children. Girls were raised to be "ladies" and boys to be gentlemen.There were also people that went against this conformity, these people were part of the "Beat Movement".
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Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Movement took off in the late 1950's and 1960's. Acts were being passed every couple of years mostly to give more rights to African Americans and to stop discrimination. One of the most significant leaders during this time was Martin Luther King Jr. Category:Civil Rights/women's rights -
Feminism
The movement of Feminism really took off in the 1960's and was really big in the 70's and 80's too. This was a movement for the empowerment of women, it was also called Women's Liberation. Many groups, organizations, and women everywhere were fed up with being the "weaker sex", and not getting the rights they deserved. So they decided to do something about it. Category: womens rights -
Counterculture
In the 1960's all of the people that did not agree with conformity, materialism, and social and political norms came together, these people were known as the Counterculture . You could say they were free spirits. They believed in and practiced peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Category: social/environmental/political -
Vietnam War Opposition
There were many different reasons why people were against the Vietnam War , it was immoral in many different ways. The first protest to the war was only 25,000 people but it was the biggest in US history. The protests only got larger from there. There was a protest in New York that had over 1 million people. Category: political/social -
Black Panther Party
In 1966 the Black Panther Party was started in California. It was a group that had desires of equality for Blacks and other oppressed peoples, just like many others all over the country, but were labeled as a "threat to the internal security of the country" by the FBI. In reality they fed and gave free medical help to hudred of thousands of people who could not afford it. Category:Civil Rights -
La Raza Unida
During the 1970's, a third party was formed in Texas called La Raza Unida . This party was formed by Chicano, or Mexican-American, people. They wanted a place in America. This party would focus on improving the economic, social, and political aspects of the Chicano community throughout Texas. Category: civil rights/political/social
