Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: D - The Weathermen and Chicago Seven were associated with the Hippie movement of the 1960s. The Weathermen were activists from a group named Weather Underground, a radical organization founded at the University of Michigan. They were primarily opposed to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam Conflict, but they also advocated Black power. At one point, they declared war against the U.S. government, and they took part in numerous low-grade bombings of financial institutions and government buildings. Weather Underground disintegrated after the United States divested from Vietnam in 1973. The Chicago Seven were the seven defendants charged with crimes related to the violent outburst at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Seven included prominent youth activists Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, and Rennie Davis. They were charged with violations of the anti-riot provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The defendants made a spectacle out of their trial, engaging in theatrics to incite emotional responses from the judge, the prosecutor, the jury, the media, the people demonstrating outside the courthouse, the political establishment, and the public at large. Two defendants were acquitted entirely, while the other five were only convicted of one charge, which led to five-year prison sentences that were later overturned on appeal. In the subsequent years the activists mostly mellowed their activism and three have since died.