Ch 27

Question 0

How was the shortage of housing solved?

Answer 0

Assembly line mass produced houses

Question 1

What did the GI Bill of Rights include?

Answer 1

Payed for part of tuition, 1 year of unemployment comp, and low interest on federally garunteed loans

Question 2

This is a residential town near a city

Answer 2

Suburb

Question 3

Why did the unemployment rate rise after the war?

Answer 3

Wartime production and contracts were cancelled

Question 4

What did the Cold War do for the defense budget?

Answer 4

It kept it high and employed many

Question 5

How did Truman stop strikes?

Answer 5

Be threatened to draft striking workers and order them to stay on the job

Question 6

How was Truman progressive?

Answer 6

He had a civil rights commission and tried to ban poll taxes and lynching. He also integrated the armed forces in 1948

Question 7

These were southern democrats who opposed Truman’s civil rights policy, forming the States’ Rights Democratic Party

Answer 7

Dixiecrats

Question 8

This proposed a national health insurance system, raising the minimum wage, extending social security, and building 810,000 housing units for low income families

Answer 8

Fair deal

Question 9

What caused the democrats to lose power?

Answer 9

Communism and alleged corruption

Question 10

What is Eisenhower known for doing?

Answer 10

Cut taxes, raising the minimum wage, increased public housing funding, interstate highways, welfare, and dept of health and education

Question 11

When was the rosa parks thing?

Answer 11

1955

Question 12

What kinds of job became more prevalent in the 50s?

Answer 12

White collar

Question 13

This is a major corporation that includes smaller companies in unrelated fields

Answer 13

Conglomerate

Question 14

This is a company that offers similar products and services in many locations

Answer 14

Franchise

Question 15

Workers gained ____ but lost ____.

Answer 15

Economic advancement, individuality

Question 16

This is a major increase in the US birthdate following WWII

Answer 16

Baby boom

Question 17

What caused the baby boom?

Answer 17

Reunions after the war, decreasing marriage age, desire for larger families, and confidence in the economy

Question 18

How were thousands of lives saved?

Answer 18

Advanced medicine to fight at prevent childhood diseases

Question 19

This man developed the polio vaccine

Answer 19

Dr. Jonas Salk

Question 20

What led to an increase in leisure?

Answer 20

Labor saving devices t

Question 21

Where was the car necessary?

Answer 21

The suburbs

Question 22

What caused the decline of railroads?

Answer 22

Interstate highways

Question 23

What industries bloomed because of cars?

Answer 23

Drive ins, restaurants, and malls

Question 24

This is the buying of material goods, equated with success in the 50's

Answer 24

Consumerism

Question 25

This is the strategy of designing products to become obsolete

Answer 25

Planned obsolescence

Question 26

What did consumers use to make purchases?

Answer 26

Credit cards

Question 27

What caused a boom in the advertising industry?

Answer 27

Higher consumer spending

Question 28

This is A means of communication that reached large audiences

Answer 28

Mass media

Question 29

This is a government agency that regulates TV, phones, radio, and other industries

Answer 29

FCC

Question 30

What was 50's TV called?

Answer 30

The golden age of TV

Question 31

When was TV guide introduced?

Answer 31

1953

Question 32

Why was TV criticized?

Answer 32

It only depicted the idealized white American... No poor or minorities

Question 33

This is a social and artistic movement stressing self expression and non conformity with mainstream culture

Answer 33

The best movement

Question 34

What were followers of the best movement called?

Answer 34

Beats or beatniks

Question 35

This man wrote On the Road which was a nomadic search across America for authentic experiences

Answer 35

On the Road

Question 36

What did the beat movement set the stage for?

Answer 36

60s counterculturism

Question 37

When was R&B developed?

Answer 37

The 50's

Question 38

This man promoted rock and roll?

Answer 38

DJ Alan Freed

Question 39

What was rock and roll classified as?

Answer 39

R&B, blues, country, and pop with heavy rhythms and simple melodies

Question 40

Why did adults condemn rock and roll?

Answer 40

It caused delinquency and immorality

Question 41

Who were poor in the 50s?

Answer 41

Elderly, single moms and their kids, and minorities

Question 42

Where did the poor move to?

Answer 42

Inner cities

Question 43

Why couldn't cities maintain their schools and public transit and stuff?

Answer 43

They lost businesses and the associated taxes

Question 44

This is replacing buildings in run down inner city neighborhoods with new stuff like highways and shopping centers

Answer 44

Urban renewal

Question 45

These were Mexican labored allowed to work during WWII. Many stayed illegally to escape Mexico

Answer 45

Braceros

Question 46

This man was a Mexican American in WWII who was killed in the Philippines and his local undertaker refused him funeral services

Answer 46

Felix Longiria

Question 47

What did Longoria inspire?

Answer 47

Stepping up the civil rights movement

Question 48

This was an Indian group made in 1944 to protect civil rights and retain culture

Answer 48

National Congress of American Indians

Question 49

This is a 1953 policy to eliminate and redistribute reservation lande, pulling economic support

Answer 49

Termination Policy

Question 50

When was the termination policy abandoned?

Answer 50

1963