Transcript 1960s Notes and Quiz Questions

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1960’s Quiz
Do you know…?
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Which Hair Style was Popular?
Straight with Bangs
Pixie Cut
Feathered
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Hairstyles
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Models from Britain such as Twiggy made short hair popular in the
United states.
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Twiggy was also known for making fake eyelashes a fashionable
accessory in the 1960s.
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Bangs and long straight hair was considered“sexy” during the 60s.
Younger women and teenagers were going for this look.
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Which Fashion They Wore?
Hippie Style
Mini Skirt
Poodle Skirt
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Fashion
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The mini skirt created by Mary Quant
became a high fashion trademark during the 60s.
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Mods:
London Modernists known as “Mods”were the fashion drivers
of the 1960s. They had a modern approach to fashion by
redefining clothes using bright colors and lots of geometric
patterns. They also had a modern approach to makeup use by
using bright colors and more makeup such as eyeliner and fake
eyelashes.
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This look came later:
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Tie-died shirts, headbands, beads, bellbottoms, sandals, buck-skin vests, Mexican peasant blouses,
scarves, and being in public without a bra and no shoes were the fashion trends of the late 60s.
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Which Shoe They Were Wearing?
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Which was more Mainstream?
Top
Bottom
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Which was more Mainstream?
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TRUE or FALSE?
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Since
the federal government
approved birth control in 1960
over 80% of women were using
oral contraception. This
affected the rate of child birth
significantly as less children
were being born.
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Sexual Revolution
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Sexual
Revolution
 The
‘60s saw a revolution in the realm of human sexuality and the
CC was largely responsible for it.
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CC scoffed at their parents’ values & called them sexually
repressed. -- They called for “free love” or casual sex.
 Medical
advances, like the birth control pill, made sexual activity
without fear of pregnancy easier.
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the country was seeing the effects of this “new freedom”women went braless, movies showed sex b/w men and women, &
songs made explicit references to sex
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should also be noted that the gay rights movement began as a
result of this new freedom
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was also an incredible rise in STDs &, despite improved
birth control, illegitimate children born
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Women’s Liberation Movement
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COUNTERCULTURE
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True or False
The 1960’s had a higher drug
use than the 1970’s or 1980’s.
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Truth about Drug Use 1960’s
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“In popular imagination, the 1960s were the heyday of illegal
drug use -- but historical data indicate they probably weren't. In
fact, surveys show that drug abuse was comparably rare, as was
accurate information about the effects of illegal drugs. In a 1969
Gallup poll, only 4% of American adults said they had tried
marijuana.”
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“My generation was told that marijuana caused acne, blindness,
and sterility,” –Alana Anderson, a child custody officer who
graduated college in 1969
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/6331/decades-drug-use-data-from60s-70s.aspx