PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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suggest that a poor person could get rich with hard work
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demand the return of lands seized by the US government to individual Indian tribes
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expose the harmful effects or the environmental impact of certain products
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publicize the growing racial violence in American society as a result of civil rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -The publication of Silent Spring led to an increased public awareness of humanity’s impact on nature and is credited as the beginning of the modern environmental movement, leading to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and the banning of DDT in 1972.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the first countries to benefit from the use of DDT for civilian purposes was the United States. In the years immediately preceding World War II, between one and six million Americans, mostly drawn from the rural South, contracted malaria annually.
Detailed explanation-3: -A book written by Rachel Carson in 1962. It warned against the growing use of pesticides-chemicals used to kill insects and rodents. Carson argued that pesticides poisoned the food and thus killed many birds and fish. The book warned of a “silent spring” in which birds killed of by pesticides would no longer sing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rachel Carson’s greatest achievement came in 1962, with the publication of Silent Spring. The book was a cry to ban dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, more commonly known as DDT, and end the misuse of chemical pesticides that she claimed were degrading the environment on an unprecedented scale.