Question

The Woodstock festival of 1969 was a significant event because

Answer 1

It was a symbol of the American counter-culture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Step-by-step explanation:

The 60s and 70s culture was inundated with capitlilistic and materislitic views. Keeping up with the Jones, all the new products being pushed out.

The attendees of the festival were more about enviroment, socialism and community. Minimalistic lifestyles. These two cultures were polar opposites.

Answer 2

In many ways, it wasn't significant.

But it grew in the popular mind because it was a gathering that was so different from gatherings before and people really had a sense of FOMO.