Description Acceptable. A group including Lolita Lebrón injured five politicians, including Alvin Bentley, during a demonstration in support of this cause. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cause. Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to assassinate a US president in support of this cause.
ANSWER: Puerto Rican independence [accept descriptions of Puerto Rico becoming independent or Puerto Rico becoming a country; accept Puerto Rican nationalism]
[10e] Blanca Canales is said to have led an uprising in Jayuya in support of Puerto Rican independence during this man’s presidency. Collazo and Torresola attempted to assassinate this president, who took office in 1945.
ANSWER: Harry S Truman
[10m] Gregory Pincus led a study of these products in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico in 1956. The Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut acknowledged a right to privacy in overturning a ban on the use of these products.
ANSWER: birth control [accept contraceptives or contraception; accept specific forms of contraception like condoms; prompt on the pill; prompt on medicine; reject “abortifacients” or treatments that cause “abortion”]
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