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Question 1

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 1

Law Passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education.

Question 2

Baby Boom

Answer 2

A cohort of individuals born in the United States between the end of World War Two and 1965, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity.

Question 3

Fair Deal

Answer 3

President Truman’s program to expand New Deal reforms.

Question 4

President Eisenhower

Answer 4

The US president who followed Truman. After election he immediately signed an armistice and ended the Korean War. He led the nation through most of the 1950’s and during his administration the Interstate Highway System started.

Question 5

Sunbelt

Answer 5

A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest that has seen substantial population growth in decades after World War Two.

Question 6

Interstate Highway Act

Answer 6

1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway.

Question 7

consumerism

Answer 7

A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. Much of this is often done with credit.

Question 8

Rock-and-Roll Music

Answer 8

Music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans.

Question 9

Suburbanization

Answer 9

The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.

Question 10

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Answer 10

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessey v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.