For this assignment you will review Chapters 25 to 27 in Oakes et al., Of The People and write a five-paragraph reflection essay that addresses the following prompt:
Describe the Civil Rights Movements, Counterculture Movement, and the Vietnam War in the United States from the 1950s to the early 1970s. What social and economic tensions existed? What caused these tensions? Be sure to mention the 1968 election.
This essay must have five full paragraphs: an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph. Each paragraph should be a minimum of five sentences. You will use parenthetical citations from the textbook, just cite the page numbers in parenthesis, like this (798). This tells the reader where you found your information.
See the PDF below for essay format guidelines.