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NCHS-9-1-B
The student understands how the social changes of the postwar period affected various Americans
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Urban Crisis: Fire and Water
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Urban Crisis: Disease, Crime, and Space
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New Deal Order
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The Politics of Anticommunism
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The Stable Fifties
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The Subversive Fifties
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Relevant transcripts: Resource Type: Document-Based Question During the 1960s, a series of widely disparate protest movements emerged in the United States. While the antiwar movement directed against U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War appeared to be the most salient, many others as well expressed discontent with American government and society. In this question, students are asked to look at a variety of groups—including women, African Americans, and ethnic minorities—many of whose members felt marginalized or underrepresented, became politically active, and helped to establish social movements dedicated to the advancement of their communities. Students can use these documents to determine the degree to which different groups sought to redefine American democracy and make it more inclusive. Sixties Radicalism and Conservatism Resource Type: Document-Based Question Dissent and social protest characterize the 1960s. Enduring images of the decade recall its civil-rights marches, antiwar protests, and rallies of members of various social grouips—women, farmworkers, American Indians—calling for greater justice. The documents within the DBQ represent a variety of voices, illustrating the tensions between countercultural movements of the 1960s and conservative reactions against them. This DBQ contextualizes the debates of the 1960s within a longer-term analysis of the divisions between left and right in the United States since the beginning of the Cold War. Legacies: The American Welfare State Resource Type: Primary Source Classic poster of the Works Progress Administration, or WPA, one of the many New Deal projects of FDR's administration. The New Framework: The Full Employment Bill Resource Type: Primary Source Still from In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have (1950). Student Information Given to Federal Investigators Resource Type: Primary Source This article in the Columbia University student newspaper reports that the dean of students provided federal investigators with information about students who had attended the university. The Organization Man Resource Type: Primary Source William Whyte discusses the institutionalized and bureaucratized aspects of life in America. DuBois on American Democracy Resource Type: Primary Source DuBois discusses American democracy and why he is frustrated with party politics in the United States. The Affluent Society Resource Type: Primary Source Galbraith's classic study of 1950s America discusses the irony of the existence of significant poverty in affluent America. Coming of Age in Mississippi Resource Type: Primary Source Moody reveals her experience of wandering into the white section of the local theater; she realizes, after the incident, that "whiteness" provided her friends with a different life. Eisenhower at a Football Game Resource Type: Primary Source Eisenhower served as president of Columbia University; here he is seen waving a Columbia University pennant in one hand and an Army pennant in the other at a college football game. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. Levitt On Communism and Home Ownership Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its mass-produced housing. William Levitt is quoted as saying the following. Convergence Resource Type: Primary Source Renowned for his technique of spontaneous "splatter" or "action" painting, Jackson Pollock (1912–56) emerged as the leading American artist of the abstract expressionist movement. I Am Waiting Resource Type: Primary Source One of the beat poets, Ferlinghetti captures an alternative perspective on life in postwar America in this poem. Levittown, New York Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its hundreds of acres of mass-produced housing. The Affluent Soceiety: Public vs. Private Sectors Resource Type: Primary Source John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent Harvard economist, outlined in this article the necessary balance that should exist between the private and public sectors of the American economy. Woolworth Counter Strike Resource Type: Primary Source In 1960, students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, a historically black institution, defied segregation by sitting at the luncheon counter of the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro. The Other America Resource Type: Primary Source With this book, writer and social activist Michael Harrington helped launch the New Left movement of the 1960s and its concerns about American poverty and social injustice. The Feminine Mystique Resource Type: Primary Source Founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Betty Friedan wrote this influential treatise critiquing the loneliness and dissatisfaction felt by many suburban housewives in postwar America. The Avant-Garde Artists of the 1950s Resource Type: Classroom Simulation In this creative simulation, students role-play avant-garde artists of the 1950s to discuss important issues of the times (politics, the affluent society, race relations, women, etc.) from an artistic and intellectual perspective. Key Figures Resource Type: Primary Source Key Figures Resource Type: Primary Source The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Customers wait in line to buy houses in Levittown, N.Y. The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Families move into Levittown, N.Y. The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Welcome wagon offers gifts from local merchants to new arrivals in Levittown, N.Y. The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Cape Cod–style houses in Levittown, N.Y. The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Dance rehearsal in Levittown, N.Y. (1950). The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Square dancers celebrate Levittown's 10th anniversary. Other Americans Resource Type: Primary Source A corporate board of directors (1961). Other Americans: Pressured to Conform Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of The Organization Man by William H. Whyte, Jr. (1956). Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Allen Ginsberg, in a photograph taken at his enrollment in Columbia University (1943). Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source While a student at Columbia University, Allen Ginsberg took courses with Lionel Trilling, the great literary scholar. Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, fellow Beats, listen to Allen Ginsberg read poetry at Columbia University (1959). Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Cover from a 1959 edition of Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. This collection was first published by City Lights Books in 1956. Other Americans: The Beats Resource Type: Primary Source Allen Ginsberg at home (1966). Environmental Critique: Pollution and Health Resource Type: Primary Source Early ban-the-bomb protest outside the United Nations. Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Michael Harrington, author. Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Cover of a 1963 paperback edition of The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington. This book was first published in 1962. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Boy amid demolished slums, New York City (1961). Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Man looks out over slums in Detroit. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Slums in Appalachia. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Slums, Omaha, Nebraska. Poverty: Structural Poverty Resource Type: Primary Source Girl in a slum area of Washington, D.C. Poverty: Why the Attention? Resource Type: Primary Source Teenage mother attends class with her baby (1971). | |
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