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Chapter 14: 1960-1968 Inquiry Organizer
How did internal and external political and cultural tensions shape the years 1960–1968?
In this organizer
- Lesson5
- Narrative10
- Primary Source12
- Point-Counterpoint1
- Decision Point3
Compelling question
How did internal and external political and cultural tensions shape the years 1960-1968?
Chapter objectives
- Students will explain the triumph and decline of the liberal consensus over the welfare state and the rise of the conservative movement.
- Students will analyze how different groups in American society fought for equality and rights.
- Students will analyze numerous economic, demographic, technological, cultural, and social changes in the United States during the 1960s
Supporting questions and resources
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Supporting question 1
How did debates about the role of the federal government in domestic and foreign policy continue during the 1960s?
- NarrativeJohn F. Kennedy’s Inauguration
- Primary SourceJohn F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
- NarrativeThe Cuban Missile Crisis
- NarrativeThe Vietnam War: Ia Drang Valley
- Point-CounterpointWas the Great Society Successful?
- Primary SourceLyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at the University of Michigan (“Great Society” Speech), May 22, 1964
- NarrativeThe Election of 1968
- Primary SourceThe Vietnam War Experience: An Interview with Veteran William Maxwell Barner III
- Primary SourceThe Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964
- Primary SourceLyndon B. Johnson, “Peace Without Conquest,” April 7, 1965
- Primary SourceImage Analysis: March on the Pentagon, October 21, 1967
- Primary SourceWalter Cronkite Speaks Out against Vietnam, February 27, 1968
- Decision PointFree Speech and the Student Anti-War Movement
- NarrativeStudents and the Anti-War Movement
- Primary SourceStudents for a Democratic Society, “Port Huron Statement,” 1962
- Decision PointProtests at the University of California, Berkeley
- Decision PointLyndon B. Johnson’s Decision Not to Run in 1968
Supporting question 2
How did different groups in American society fight for equality and rights?
- NarrativeFreedom Riders
- NarrativeThe March on Birmingham
- NarrativeBlack Power
- Primary SourceMartin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 1963
- Primary SourceMalcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” April 12, 1964
- Primary SourceMartin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1963
- NarrativeBetty Friedan and the Women’s Movement
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 Primary Source
- LessonCivil Disobedience across Time
- LessonThe Music of the Civil Rights Movement
- LessonCivil Rights DBQ
- LessonA Civil Rights Investigation: Mississippi Burning
- LessonWe Shall Overcome: The Fight for Voting Rights
- Chapter 14 Introductory Essay: 1960-1968
- NarrativeRachel Carson and Silent Spring
- Primary SourceRachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
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