SAQs for APUSH Topic 8.11 — The Civil Rights Movement Expands

Twenty questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to the efforts to organize various groups of civil rights activists during the 1960s and 1970s to further expand social and economic equality.

Women’s Rights Movement (aka Second-wave Feminism)

Click here for ten questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s, lasted roughly two decades, and sought to increase equality for women by gaining more than just enfranchisement.

The Gay and Lesbian Movement:

This late 1960s through the mid-1980s movement urged lesbians and gay men to “come out” to family, friends, and colleagues, live life as an openly lesbian or gay person, and counter societal shame with gay pride. An important historical event associated with the Gay and Lesbian Movement was something called the Stonewall Riots. For ten SAQs that relate to this series of 1969 spontaneous demonstrations by members of the then-called gay (and today called LGBT) community, click here.

American Indian Movement

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The Chicano Movement

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The Asian American Movement

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