The Counterculture

Question 1

Which of the following are characteristics of a counterculture?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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opposed to mainstream values; made up mostly of young people

Question 2

What values did the 1960s counterculture hold?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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free expression; communal living; questioning authority

Question 3

Read the following list and select the reasons why more and more Americans turned against the war.

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The enemy was unclear.; The goals of the war were uncertain.; The draft seemed unfair.; The war cost many lives.

Question 4

Complete the sentence by filling in the right term. supported the Vietnam War.

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hawks,Hawks

Question 5

Resistance to the Vietnam War grew in the late 1960s. What explanation does the graph support for that growing resistance?

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The United States became more deeply involved in Vietnam in the late 1960s.

Question 6

Why were people concerned that the draft was unfair?Check all of the boxes that apply.

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It disproportionately targeted poor people.; College students could receive an exemption.

Question 7

Match each photo with the protest tactic it shows.

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Selection 1: sit-in; Selection 2: march; Selection 3: draft-card burning

Question 8

Select the groups that were examples of antiwar student movements during the 1960s.Check all of the boxes that apply.

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Question 9

What role did student movements play in the counterculture, and why were they important?

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They drew likeminded young people together to call for social change.

Question 10

This photo best illustrates which hippie slogan?

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flower power

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