Affluence and Conformity

Question 1

How much did car ownership increase in the 1950s-60s

Answer 1

Car ownership increased from 39 million in 1950 to 74 million in 1960

Question 2

Service workers and white-collar workers

Answer 2

By 1960 there were 27 million white-collar workers

Question 3

The growth of the suburbs

Answer 3

1920s 17% lived in suburbs but by 1960 it was 33%

Question 4

How much more purchasing power did Americans have in1960 than it did in 1950?

Answer 4

30%

Question 5

What did teenagers purchase in 1959?

Answer 5

1959 owning 10 million record players and $25 million on deodorants

Question 6

How much was spent on advertisements in the 150s and then 60s

Answer 6

1950s $6 billion by 1960 it was $12 billion

Question 7

What % of blacks were unable to vote ?

Answer 7

80% they were threatened with violence and ask impossible questions

and a $17 poll tax

Question 8

How much did South Carolina spend on a white kid vs a black kid?

Answer 8

$200 ( roundup ) per annum per kid

$40 ( down) per annum per kid

Question 9

When and what was the Montgomery bus boycott?

Answer 9

1955-56

Rosa Parks refused to move and She was arrested the NAACP led a boycott

50,000 Blacks partipated

Question 10

The Montgomery bus boycott’s results

Answer 10

• white backlash and established the White Citizens’ Councils to defend segregation
• Browder V.Gayle
• showed the power of activism
• new leader MLK

Question 11

KKK activity’s

Answer 11

• bombed King’s house
• attacked freedom riders
• bombed a church 1963 killed kids
• cross-burning beatings , shootings and murrders
• killed Viola Liuzzo a white who joined Selma March

Question 12

What was and When was the Little Rock Crisis ?

Answer 12

1957

City of Little Rock wanted to desegregate it’s school 9 Blacks tried to join

Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to keep students out. A mob also kept them out

Potus Eisenhower sent troops to protect them

Question 13

What was the significance of the Birmingham campaign

Answer 13

• no meangful ageement on segregation reached
• exposed the southern bigotry at its worst helped to pass the Civil Rights Act
• showed power of demonstrations

Question 14

What was the March on Washington?

Answer 14

1963

NAACP ,SNCC and the SCLC attended to encourage Congress to pass civil rights bill. 250,000 marchers and king did his “I have a dream” speech

Question 15

What did Kennedy want to legislate on?

Answer 15

• new department of Urban affirs and housing
• The Minimum Wage Act increased minim wags from $ 0.25 to $1.25 and covered an extra 4 million
• extended highway
• Food and Agriculture Act 1962 gave subsidies to farmers
• Omnibus Housing ACT 1961 Congress granted $5 billion to extend existing programs such as urban renewal

Question 16

What were Kennedy’s legislative failures?

Answer 16

• Federal Finacl Aid for elementary and secondary Education rejected
• healthcare act for the old rejected
• civil rights bill stuck in Congress by his death
• stimulating tax cuts rejected