Chapter 26 and 27 review

On which issue did president Truman make progress?

Desegregation of the military

Which of the following contributed to a surge in postwar home construction?

Loans to war veterans

Truman's plan to strengthen reforms and start new social welfare programs

Fair deal

The act of disbanding an army

Demobilization

A workers output per each hour of work

Productivity

After the war the US economy

Shifted to producing consumer goods

Law that grants benefits to war veterans

GI bill of rights

President Eisenhower….

Maintained existing new deal programs

A law that limited labor unions rights

Taft Hartley act

A period of time when many people married and started families

Baby boom

The_____________includes businesses such as Healthcare law and banking and retail

Service sector

The rise of __________allowed companies to distribute their products and services through retail outlets owned by independent operators

Franchise businesses

Which industry grew most rapidly during the 1950s?

Service

In 1955 two large labor unions united to form the ….

AFL CIO

Which of the following made the scale of suburban growth possible?

Interstate highways

Congress increased federal funding for education largely because of…

The soviet union space program

In the post war period many people migrated south and west to the…

Sunbelt

Between 1940-1960 more than 40 million Americans

Migrated to suburbs

______________produce and sell goods and services all over the world

Multinational corporations

The_____________established three tiers of higher education

California master plan

Which of the following contributed to rural poverty?

Corporate farming

After WWII, many American cities begin to decline because of the…

Flight of the middle class

In The Other America, Michael Harrington expose problems dealing with…

Poverty

A group of riders and artist who refused to accept traditional ways of thinking, dressing, and behaving

Beatniks

Many social critics in the 1950s criticized an American emphasis on…

Conformity

The central part of an urban area

Inner city

Im the late 1950s, the federal government encouraged native Americans to..

Assimilate into American society

After WWII, many African Americans and other non-white minorities…

Moved to the cities

Laws that tried to end tribal government and relocate need Americans to cities

Termination policy

Clearing out old housing and building new developments

Urban renewal

The television…

Change the way politicians ran for office

During the 1950s, American consumers…

Purchased new laborsaving appliances

Singer who sent off a new craze in rock music

Elvis Presley

Dr. Jonas Salk

Developed a vaccine against polio

The author of the book on Nurturing young children.

Benjamin Spock

The amount of money the average family earns in a year

Median family income

Rock and roll music

Became a symbol of youth culture

Buying as much as one can, much of it on credit

Consumerism

A household consisting of a father, a mother, and their children

Nuclear family

What disc jockey Alan freed called “race” music

Rock ‘n’ roll

The ________was established by Ella Baker

SNCC

Held to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks

Montgomery bus boycott

The ____was passed by Congress during the Johnson administration

Civil Right Act of 1964

The______was one type of protest used by civil rights activists

Sit in

Refuse to relinquish a bus seat to a white passenger

Rosa Parks

Segregation by custom or tradition

De facto segregation

Was assassinated in 1963

Medgar Evers

sought to enroll at “Ole Miss”

James Meredith

To which city president Eisenhower send the federal troops to protect African-American students?

Little Rock Arkansas

The Civil Right Act of 1964 forbids discrimination in employment on the basis of…

Race

Segregation imposed by law

De jure segregation

The members of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed

The direct, non-violent methods could gain civil rights for African-Americans

In response to riots over desecrating the University of Mississippi, President Kennedy declared that….

Americans were free to disagree with the lose but not to disobey it

What were Jim Crow laws?

They were laws it in force the strict separation of the races

Give the US Attorney General greater power to protect the voting rights of African-Americans

Civil Rights act of 1957

Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?

CORE

Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights?

He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on radical matters

Chief justice of the supreme court at the time of Brown v. Board of Education

Earl Warren

How did T. Eugene Connor react to civil right marchers in Birmingham?

He ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses against the marchers

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech during the________

March on Washington

the national defense education act allocated federal funds to train people in which field?job?

Stem fields (Sciences, math, engineering)

During post war period immigrants groups in America....?

experienced mix of legal segregations

The Marshall plan generated economic growth how…?

by providing the European Recovery Program

What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas case

extended the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause beyond the “two-class” framework of white and Black citizens to protect other racial and ethnic groups

How long did the Montgomery Bus last for?

13 months

What Civil Rights measure was passed by congress shortly after King’s assassination?

Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Also known as Fair Housing Act of 1968)