https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZePNpgD9x4E The Century: Starting Over – 1970s (0-28 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyN5LPHEQ_0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=45 Crash Course (0-13 minutes)
Ch. 29: America During the 1970’s
“Search for Order in an Age of Limits” or “Era of Malaise”
Topic 1 – 1970s Economics (pp. 920-928)
On Block Day
(Wednesday 4/5 - 5º or Thursday 4/6 - 2º & 3º)
we will be doing a “Q & A” about the 1970s
You are to prepare the “Q’s”
3 or 4 questions on each of the three topics listed on the right
I will provide the “A’s” –
Answers to help you better understand key details and trends
of this period that you read about and prepare for
multiple choice assessment on Friday 4/7
Topic 2 – 1970s Politics (pp. 928-940)
This is not a graded assignment
Topic 3 – 1970s Society (pp. 940-46)
Energy Crisis, OPEC Embargo, Gas Guzzlers vs. Imports, Rationing, Era of Limits
Environmental Activism, Silent Spring, Earth Day, EPA, Three Mile Island, Era of Limits
Post-Industrial Economy, Stagflation, Urban Decay, Rust Belt, Proposition 13
Affirmative Action, Bakke vs. UC, School Busing, ERA, Phyllis Schlafly,
Roe v. Wade, Griswold v. Connecticut, Harvey Milk
Warren Court, Miranda v. Arizona, Miller v. California,
Burger Court, Gregg v. Georgia, Bowers v. Hardwick
70s Divorce Rates, Two-Worker Families, TV & Music of the 70s, 70s Sexual Revolution
4th Great Awakening, “Born Again” Christians, Televangelists,
“Traditional” Family Values Movement, New Right