Ike Domestic Policy

Question 1

By how much did Eisenhower win the 1952 election?

Answer 1

34 million to 27 million PV
442 to 89 EC

Question 2

Who did Eisenhower beat in 1952?

Answer 2

Governor of Illinois Adai Stevenson

Question 3

What did Eisenhower do before his presidency?

Answer 3

Supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe in WWII
Head of NATO

Question 4

Where did Eisenhower grow up?

Answer 4

Rural Kansas

Question 5

Eisenhower’s economic vision?

Answer 5

Strongly opposed deficit spending - wanted a balanced budget - opposed the new deal

Question 6

Why did Eisenhower run in 52?

Answer 6

He hated Trumans policy (deficit spending, loss of china)
Hated republican old guard policy (isolationism) - Taft

Question 7

Why was Nixon a good running mate?

Answer 7

Younger, pleased the old guard because he was very anti-communist, liberal on civil rights, fiercely partisan and could attack democrats

Question 8

What was Eisenhower’s dynamic conservatism?

Answer 8

Conservative with money, liberal with people

Question 9

How many more people did Eisenhower add to social security in 1954?

Answer 9

10 million

Question 10

How much did Eisenhower increase the minimum wage?

Answer 10

75 cents to one dollar and hour

Question 11

What did the 1958 National Defence Education Act do and why was it significant?

Answer 11

Gave out loans to those who wanted to study subjects useful to the space race - it was the first time the federal government funded education

Question 12

How many cars were produced and sold in 1955?

Answer 12

7.9 million

Question 13

How did the workforce change under Eisenhower ?

Answer 13

Whitecollar workers outnumbered bluecollar - 7.6 million people worked whitecollar jobs by 1960

Question 14

How much did the economy grow in the 50s?

Answer 14

$132 billion

Question 15

How much did cost of living rise compared to factory wages under Eisenhower?

Answer 15

CoL - 2.8%
Factory Wages - 8.6%

Question 16

How much did the population grow in the 50’s?

Answer 16

29 million more

Question 17

How many more houses were built? How many of these were suburban? Between 1948 and 1958

Answer 17

13 million - 11 million

Question 18

How much did the average house cost relative to the average wage?

Answer 18

2.5x

Question 19

Why did suburbs grow so much?

Answer 19

Growing middle class
White flight from urban environments

Question 20

What did Eisenhower do with power plants? (Conservative with money)

Answer 20

Sold them off, and let states take the profits from selling drilling rights

Question 21

How much did spending rise under Eisenhower?

Answer 21

11% despite his best efforts - space race pressures

Question 22

How much was the government paying in agricultural subsidies in 1956? Why?

Answer 22

5.16 billion - to stop prices collapsing like they did during the great depression

Question 23

How much did Eisenhower cut the Tennessee Valley Authority?

Answer 23

185 down to 12 million dollars - represented his scaling back of the new deal

Question 24

How many cars sold in ‘49 compared to ‘55?

Answer 24

5.1 to 7.9

Question 25

What proportion of TV's and telephones did Americans own in 1960?

Answer 25

Half

Question 26

how much money was spent on the 1956 Interstate Highway Act?

Answer 26

$26 billion

Question 27

By 1959, what had Eisenhower achieved with American SoL?

Answer 27

Best in the world

Question 28

What was the average inflation rate under Eisenhower? Why?

Answer 28

2% - due to low spending

Question 29

When were the two recessions?

Answer 29

1954 and 1958

Question 30

What were the effects of the 1958 recession?

Answer 30

5 million unemployed, 14% decrease in production

Question 31

In which years did Eisenhower achieve a surplus?

Answer 31

1956 1957 1960

Question 32

What portion of Americans lived in poverty, and how was it defined?

Answer 32

25% - less than $3000 a year for a four person family

Question 33

What event proved American success in delivering commodities to it middle class?

Answer 33

The TV debate - 1959

Question 34

What did Brown V the Board change?

Answer 34

Ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional

Question 35

Which constitutional amendment did school segregation violate?

Answer 35

14th

Question 36

Flaws with B v TB?

Answer 36

The supreme court gave no time limit - did add 'with all deliberate speed' in Brown II in 1955

Question 37

Why was B V TB especially significant?

Answer 37

Removed Plessey v Fergusson's legitimacy

Question 38

How did the supreme court rule in terms of numbers fir B V TB?

Answer 38

9-0 - it was unanimous

Question 39

Who was appointed to the court midway through the B V TB case? He convinced all judges to vote in favour

Answer 39

Earl Warren

Question 40

How much did the white citizens councils grow after B V TB?

Answer 40

250,000

Question 41

What were passed by four southern states that said they didn't have to listen to B V TB?

Answer 41

Interposition Resolutions

Question 42

What did many southern politicians sign after B V TB that pledged them to stop school integration?

Answer 42

The southern manifesto

Question 43

What kind of protest was the Montgomery bus boycott?

Answer 43

Mass direct action

Question 44

Which ruling after the MBB caused desegregation of Montgomery bus services?

Answer 44

Browder V Gayle - 1956

Question 45

How many blacks took part in the MBB?

Answer 45

Nearly all of Montgomery's 50,000 black population

Question 46

What was the MBB protesting?

Answer 46

Segregation and poor treatment of Black people on Montgomerys buses

Question 47

When was the LR9?

Answer 47

1957

Question 48

What was the LR9?

Answer 48

Nine black students sent to integrated LR high school

Question 49

Who blocked the LR9?

Answer 49

Orval Faubus sent the national guard, and a big angry racist mob

Question 50

How was the LR9 resolved?

Answer 50

Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne to enforce the supreme courts ruling

Question 51

How did Eisenhower justify intervening in LR?

Answer 51

Law and order - respect of the supreme court

Question 52

What did Cooper v Aaron do? When was it?

Answer 52

1958 - Ruled that any law that sought to keep schools segregated was unconstitutional.

Question 53

How many more black people had registered to vote as a result of Eisenhowers CR acts?

Answer 53

3%

Question 54

What proportion of black americans were registered to vote in 1956? Mississippi numbers?

Answer 54

20% - 7,000/900,000

Question 55

Eisenhowers relationship to his CR acts?

Answer 55

Praised them but wasn't really involved, admitted he didn't know what was in them?

Question 56

What did the 1957 CR act do?

Answer 56

established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.

Question 57

What did the 1960 CR act do?

Answer 57

established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.