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Social unrest, protest and change in the U.S.

Social unrest, protest and change in the U.S. Goal: Describe how perspectives of cultural groups create political action groups. Groups. Native Americans (pg. 768-773) Hispanic Americans (pg. 768-773) Counterculture (pg. 781-785). Task.

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Social unrest, protest and change in the U.S.

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  1. Social unrest, protest and change in the U.S. Goal: Describe how perspectives of cultural groups create political action groups

  2. Groups • Native Americans (pg. 768-773) • Hispanic Americans (pg. 768-773) • Counterculture (pg. 781-785)

  3. Task • Write one-page paper in paragraph form identifying 2 problems, 2 methods, and one area of success. • Create a poster which answers the following questions for your group • 1. What problems were faced by this group? • 2. How did the group attempt to change their situation? Include their primary methods for change. (Ex: Peaceful Assemblies) • 3. Explain the extent of your groups success • Poster = list format; 2 problems; 2 methods; success; drawn symbol

  4. Rubric • Poster correctly identifies two problems faced by or that the group identified with (10) • Poster correctly identifies two methods of change utilized by the group (10) • Poster correctly identifies at least one area of success of the group (5) • Poster includes a symbol that is representative of the group (5) • Total = 30 pts

  5. Native Americans • Problems • Broken promises of U.S. government • 1950’s government said it would no longer help Indians. It was the states responsibility. • States were not helping • Living on small reservations • 1950’s government encouraged Native Americans to move off reservations and to cities • Difficulty finding jobs, increased cost of living in city • Uneducated, jobless, living in poverty • More than 38% living below the poverty line (African Americans = 33%, U.S. as a whole (12%) • Unemployment as high as 50%

  6. Native Americans (cont) • Methods • American Indian Movement: Used violence if needed to get better treatment of Native Americans • 100 occupied island of Alcatraz (Prison closed 1963)late 1969 until mid 1971 • “Trail of Broken Treaties” 3,200 miles. Took over Bureau of Indian Affairs Offices in D.C. Renamed Native American Embassy (1972) • Seized Wounded Knee, South Dakota on Pine Ridge Reservation put towns white people in one house. Two AIM killed (1973) • Courts: Outstanding land claims of Native Americans were settled • 670 cases heard by Indian Claims Commission created by Truman, about $775 to each claimant • Alaskan Native Land Claims Settlement Act of 1971 • 40 million acres and $962.5 million awarded • $106 million awarded to Sioux for lands taken in illegally in South Dakota (1980) • $162 million awarded to Puyallup people in Washington • Formed non-violent action groups • Wrote books on whites treatment of Indians (pg. 696: primary source)

  7. Native Americans (cont) • Success • Congress gave Indians control of government programs on Indian reservations • More control of schools on reservations • Courts granted tribes money or land

  8. Hispanic Americans • Problems • Poor working and living conditions • Low pay for migrant workers • Lack of representation in government • Methods • United Farm Workers (UFW) • Founded by Cesar Chavez • Used strikes, pickets and demonstrations • Boycotted California grape growers (1967-1970) • New York City: Sale of grapes declined by 90% in summer of 1968. • La RazaUnida “The people united” (1970) • Hispanic-American political organization

  9. Hispanic Americans (cont) • Success • California passed a law requiring collective bargaining between growers and union (1975) • Most growers gave in to some union demands (pg. 695) • Pay increases, employer contributions to worker health and welfare funds, union control over hiring, joint worker-grower committees to protect workers (ie: pesticide use) • Bilingual Education Act (1968) • Provided federal assistance to school districts for developing bilingual education programs • 1980 – Six Hispanics in Congress. • 2009 – Sonia Sotomayor – Supreme Court Justice

  10. Counter Culture • Problems • Rejected prevailing middle class values, beliefs and attitudes of the “Establishment” • Suburban life and the “cookie cutter” lifestyle • People and institutions representing power, authority and the status quo • “doing your own thing” • Materialism • Science, Technology and emphasis of reason blamed for bringing world to brink of Nuclear Disaster • Stressed intuition and inner feelings over intellect • Government policies using military force (war) • “Make love not war”

  11. Counterculture (cont) • Methods • Peaceful Assemblies • Rallies in the streets • Festivals such as Woodstock (1969) • Communes • Communities sharing property in common • “better to make what you need, share what you have with others, and not want what you do not have”

  12. Counterculture (cont) • Success • Cultural Diffusion • Mainstream culture adopted some aspects of the counterculture • Health food stores • Colorful, beaded, braided, patched, and fringed garments • Rock and Roll • End to U.S. involvement in Vietnam • Bringing U.S. troops home

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