THE FIGHT EXPANDSMacCarthy

Essential Questions How did Cesar Chavez effect the Civil

Rights movement?Create a Bubble map to describe Chavez’s

affect

Other groups influenced by the African American Civil Rights movement, what did they do to get Equal Rights?

Create a Tree map to explain what other groups did.

Rights What did African Americans do to help

bring attention to the injustices of the Civil Rights movement?

Which group has been making the laws for America for most of US history?

What are minorities?

Mexican Americans

Why where migrant workers earning less money?

Why could they not complain to someone about it?

What is a Union?

Mexican Americans Cesar Chavez and the

United Farm Workers

Inspired by Martin Luther King and Gandhi

Better pay and better working conditions

Boycotts, Strike, Marches, and Fasting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqDu5yZj0M

Mexican Americans Better schools, pay, and housing

Student walk outs

Classes taught by Mexican Americans Jaime Escalante

Representation by Mexican Americans

Latinos(trouble uniting)

Native Americans

How have Native Americans been treated in America?

How did we try to make them part of American society?

How are Reservations Land different than the rest of the US?

Native Americans Termination policy

Ends government protection

Declaration of Indian Purpose Chose way of life and protect heritage

AIM Own rights separate from American rights

Indian Self-Determination Act Indian control of land and rights

Asian American Ideas influence “Black Power” movement

Student strikes on the West coast in 1970s

Vietnam brings attention

1976 President Ford declares Internment policy a “national mistake”

1988 President Reagan Civil Liberties Act-money to people interned

Women Historical how were women viewed in

society?

Do you know of any women who have done great things before the 1920s?

What year did this happen?

When did women’s role change in American society?

Women Less money Less job and educational opportunities Get married and raise children Working women=“unnatural”

NOW

ERA Why do you think this did not pass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GXcNYaY5Yk

TEST ON

MONDAY

Essential Questions

How did Cesar Chavez effect the Civil Rights movement?

Other groups influenced by the African American Civil Rights movement, what did they do to get Equal Rights?