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The civil rights movement was one of the earliest protests in the 60's facing racial discrimination and segregation
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The student movement started with a little group called SDS that fought for participatory democracy where any american can decide the economic, political, and social questions that would shape the nations
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The Chicano movement also fought racism and fought for ethnic pride
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Along with the participatory democracy they also fought for racism, poverty, student rights, and the Vietnam war.
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The start of the Environmental Movement was when Rachel Carson wrote the book Silent Spring in 1962 describing all of the effects we have on the environment
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It was a common thought that the environment was being harmed but no one ever really did anything about it until Rachel Carson
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The Anti-Vietnam war movement was a protest that the U.S. should pull out off the Vietnamese war
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Instead of working, most women were expected to have children and then stay home to take care of them.
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The U.S. was involve in the Vietnamese war because they did not want South Vietnam to be defeated by Communist North Vietnam
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The women's movement fought for gender equality such as women not being able to work in higher or better payed jobs