You will provide thorough definitions for the 15 terms. Imagine that you are preparing a detailed study guide for a multiple choice test and that these are the terms for the test. There will be absolutely no copying and pasting or copying sources word for word, or only making slight modifications. These definitions will be completely in your own words.
You will not use, copy, or cite any information from the internet, including Wikipedia.There will be absolutely no copying and pasting or copying sources word for word, or only making slight modifications. These definitions will be completely in your own words.
The second portion will be a one-page SINGLE spaced essay. These need to be very detailed and you are required to use three examples directly from the reading to support your answer, examples have to come from a reading under the "Primary Source" heading.
Part I:
The first portion of the exam will be giving me thorough definitions for the 15 terms listed.
Terms:
SNCC
Students for a Democratic Society
War on Poverty
Civil Rights Act
Red Power/American Indian Movement
Women's Movement (1970s and 80s)
Reagan Revolution/Reaganomics
PMRC and the Parental Advisory Label
Gulf War
War on Drugs/Mass Incarceration
Neoliberalism
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
The War on Terror
The Patriot Act
The Great Recession
Do NOT copy and paste info. Some of these terms will require more thorough definitions than others.
I want you to be detailed and approach this as though you were preparing a study guide to take an extensive multiple choice exam on content.
Part II:
This is the essay portion. I want you to write a 1 page SINGLE space essay, ABSOLUTELY NO LESS THAN 1 PAGE.
Question:
It will be very detailed.
You will draw on AT LEAST THREE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM THE READINGS (FROM UNDER THE "PRIMARY SOURCES).
Essay Portion:
How were the gains of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the Women's and Environmental movements in the 1970s challenged in the 1980s and 1990s?