The+Hippie+Movement



Essential Question: What were the beliefs of the Hippie Movement and how did it contribute to the American culture?

The Hippie Movement- What was it? How did it appear? Who was it? Where was it? When was it? Why? How does it fit in the United States' History?- This movement had effected the culture of America VERY much. It gave American culture a way to express their views and somehow more of the people began accept the openness of the young and the old. Role of this Topic: It was both a negative and positive movement. It made the people of America accept __different__ types of people. An example is, before the movement many of the people were conservative and did not accept many things that were not conservative, like homosexuality. This movement made those people accept it like they did not have before. It proved that this movement changed people's views. It also introduced more of hallucinogen drugs, like LSD, into the society. Because they advertised drugs that made you //feel// good, there were many problems for the government. In order to stop people from being addicted, the government spent thousands on rehabilitation centers.
 * The Hippie Movement of the 1960's-1970's was part of the counterculture movement of the 1960's
 * after the Beat generation (in the 1950's)
 * after the Vietnam War
 * Many teenagers and adults, those who held many of the similar beliefs. They were called Hippies - a name from "hipsters" that had been used in the generation before (Beat generation.) or "flower children" - because they wore flowers in their hair.
 * It was originated at the Haight and Ashbury district at San Fransisco, California. It soon spread to different parts of the world when it had risen to its peak in 1968.
 * Started in the 1960's but this movement did not "catch" on until the late 1960's and lasted to the early 1970's.
 * The Hippies wanted to express their beliefs, especially protesting the war on Vietnam.

Primary Sources: are pictures from the 1960's and 1970's showing the Hippie Movement. this is a way of protesting against the Vietnam War, this act was a peaceful one and one of the few famous photographs of protesting. many songs told about the hippie movement also:

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