1950s Prosperity And Challenges Question Preview (ID: 59043)


Key Events And Historical Themes Of The 1950s In The United States. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

The emergence of rock and roll is associated with which of these eras?
a) World War II
b) post-World War I
c) post-World War II
d) early 20th Century

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education addressed the issue of
a) segregation.
b) voting rights.
c) school funding.
d) Affirmative Action.

The growth of suburbs in the United States following World War II caused
a) a significant demographic shift in Congress.
b) a growth in radical feminism on college campuses.
c) massive governmental expenditures on roads programs.
d) a greater connection in people’s extended families.

Thanks to the increased availability of ______, American suburbs grew rapidly in the post-World War II era.
a) airplanes
b) automobiles
c) elevator
d) railroads

Johnson's Great Society consisted of
a) extensive tax cuts and defense spending cuts.
b) an intensifying of the war effort in Vietnam.
c) reforms in health care, education, and civil rights.
d) a conservative support for corporations and wealthy Americans.

How did the Cold War contribute to economic growth in the United States?
a) America limited markets for its exports.
b) American defense spending remained high.
c) The Soviet Union traded more with the United States.
d) European countries failed to recover from World War II.

President Lyndon B. Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The primary purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to
a) protect impoverished groups by banning the poll tax.
b) implement affirmative action programs at the federal level.
c) issue federal grants to businesses owned by minorities and women.
d) prohibit discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin.

The Interstate Highway System was authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 for the PRIMARY purpose of
a) allowing people to live further from their places of work.
b) encouraging more people to settle sparsely populated regions.
c) helping strengthen our national defense by creating an easier means of transporting people and goods in an emergency.
d) building a network of roads that would help to send work crews around the country to ease the effects of the Great Depression

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the civil rights movement. What strategy did Dr. King use to promote change?
a) electoral process
b) violent resistance
c) non-violent protest
d) surface compliance

The economic boycotts of African Americans in the Southern states during the 1950s and 1960s showed that
a) Federal government repeatedly sided with big business.
b) their spending power could affect major changes in civil rights.
c) whites could easily counter any economic impact of the boycotts.
d) such activities were useless in the modern civil rights struggle.

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