Wars Rebel

Wars Rebel
What did young people rebel against during the 1960s?

What did young people rebel against during the 1960s?
A. the war in Vietnam
B. social and economic inequalities in society
C. both a and b are true
D. none of the above

A and B are just the obvious things that were opposed in the 60′s.

The main rebellion was for freedom, and against “the establishment”, and its pressure to conform. Crew cuts, dressing up, nosy parents, curfews, and restrictions on when and how you could date the opposite sex.

This unleashed the full blown rebellion, and kids grew their hair, went barefoot, dressed sloppy, practiced free love, and did drugs. The more, the better. After this, they protested the war, and anything else that came to mind.

As long as it was against the status quo, you could get plenty of kids to sit in front of a courthouse, picket a business, or stage a protest. The mindset was basically “no more rules”. Although, the one rule they seemed to share was non-violence. “Peace”, was the slogan. For the most part, this was true. Even with campus riots, the most I remember happening was some broken windows. Mostly police dragging people away.

The movie “Easy Rider” said it best. It wasn’t the long hair, or the bare feet that pissed many people off. It was the freedom it represented. It makes them dangerous, demonstrated in the Chicago democratic convention in 1968.

I still have a big part of the sixties in me now. Except, today I don’t trust anybody over seventy. So McCain is out.

Enjoyed this question. The memories are fun to write about.

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Deadlier Than the Male – Female Spies During the Civil War

The American Civil War coincided with the Victorian era, one of the most morally repressive eras in history for women. Everything from a woman’s dress to her education were tightly constricted by societal mores that governed her every action.

These Victorian values that women of the Civil War era abided by were certainly not set aside with the coming of war; a woman’s contribution to the war effort was supposed to begin – and usually end – at home. However, as the war dragged on and more and more men left their jobs, homes, and lives for the war effort, women found themselves taking over farms, working in shops, teaching in schools, and otherwise taking over for the men who’d gone to war.

Yet many women refused to limit their assistance to their country to what could be accomplished close to home. These became nurses, worked to raise supplies for their troops, or even worked in armories. A number of these women supported their country in a more dangerous – and scandalous – way: they became spies.

Espionage was considered a dishonorable pursuit for a man during the Civil War era. For a woman, spying was tantamount to prostitution. However, as the war escalated, women both North and South flaunted the Victorian morality of time to provide their country the intelligence it needed to make tactical and practical decisions.

Easily the most infamous spy of the Civil War or the 19th Century, Belle Boyd. A Confederate spy, “La Belle Rebelle,” as she came to be known, Boyd’s espionage activities during the war – not to mention her ability to escape sticky situations unscathed – brought her fame and a modicum of fortune both during and after the war.

- Belle Boyd

Born Maria Isabella Boyd, Belle Boyd began spying for the Confederacy when Union troops invaded her Martinsburg,Virginia home in 1861. When one of the Federal soldiers manhandled her mother, Boyd shot and killed him. Exonerated in the soldier’s death, an emboldened Boyd managed to befriend the Union soldiers left to guard her, and used her slave, Eliza, to pass information confided in her by the soldiers along to Confederate officers. Boyd was caught at her first attempt at spying – and threatened with death – but she did not stop her activities; rather, she vowed to find a better way.

Boyd’s chance presented itself at her father’s hotel. She eavesdropped on conversations the Union officers staying at the hotel conducted about military affairs, and learned enough to inform General Stonewall Jackson about their regiment and activities. This time, Boyd delivered her intelligence firsthand, moving through Union lines, and reportedly drawing close enough to the action to return with bullet holes in her skirts. The information she provided allowed the Confederate army to advance on Federal troops at Fort Royal.

However, Boyd’s daring acts of espionage were drawn to a halt when a beau gave her up to Union authorities in 1862. She was held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington for a month, then released, but found herself in the hoosegow again shortly. Once again, she managed to be set free, and traveled to England, where she married a Union officer.

Boyd wasn’t the only female spy operating in Virginia. In the Confederate capital of Richmond, Elizabeth Van Lew, known as “Crazy Bet,” was providing the Union with intelligence while allowing her Confederate neighbors to consider her insane.

Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state. Elizabeth Van Lew

Van Lew, born to a wealthy and prominent Richmond family, was educated by Quakers in Philadelphia. She returned to Richmond an avowed abolitionist, going so far as to convince her mother to free the family’s slaves.

Her espionage activity began soon after the start of the war. To the distress of her neighbors, she openly supported the Union; soon she concentrated her efforts on aiding Federal prisoners at the Libby Prison, taking them food, books, and paper. Soon she began smuggling information about Confederate activities from the prisoners to Union officers, including General Ulysses S. Grant.

To hide her activities from her Confederate neighbors, Van Lew behaved oddly – dressing in old clothes, talking to herself, refusing to comb her hair – oddly enough that people began to think she was insane, and to call her “Crazy Bet.” Far from insane, Van Lew was hailed by Grant as the provider of some of the most important intelligence gathered during the war. One of Van Lew’s more inventive strategies involved a code she developed for disguising information, which she often sent to Union officers in hollowed out eggs. She also used former slaves in an espionage network, one of which, Mary Elizabeth Bower, was employed in the Confederate White House.

Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew are only two of the many women who aided their respective countries during the Civil War by spying. These women took a risk that they knew had longstanding ramifications; many who were outed as spies, such as Van Lew, found themselves shunned in polite society after the war. Their controversial efforts not only aided the war effort – they aided the progression of women for years to come.

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