Module 13 Short Answer Assignment

In addition to 3-5 sentences provide the section of the textbook you found your answer with each of your responses. 

1. Describe the changing role of the federal government in the 1960s. What new roles and responsibilities did the government assume? In your opinion, can the government affect permanent social change? Why or why not?
2. Discuss how and why various groups of people within American society began to challenge and criticize the nation’s way of life in the 1960s. Were their criticisms valid? What were some of the goals of these groups, and how did they go about achieving them?
3. In your opinion, what is the most effective method for changing society—voting, challenges in the courts, nonviolent civil disobedience, or violence? What evidence can you provide from actual events in the 1960s to support your argument?
4. Were groups that advocated the use of violence in the 1960s justified in doing so? Why or why not?
5. Discuss how the United States became engaged in the Vietnam War. What were some of the results of that engagement?

This writing assignment aligns with course level objectives 1-5 and module level objectives 1-10