Became a very popular means of media in the home in 1950s; populr topics such as comedy, action and adventure, and variety entertainment.
What is television?
100
Figure that the government set to reflect the minimum income required to support a family.
What is poverty line?
100
Became a rock 'n' roll hero; "King of Rock 'n' Roll"
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
Won the election of 1948; attacked congress as "Do-Nothing Congress"; had a narrow an stunning victory.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
100
The dramatic increase in birthrate during the 1950s.
What is baby boom?
200
After television took the popular topics of comedy, drama, and soap operas, this technology began presenting recorded music, news, talk shows, weather, public-service, and specified shows.
What is radio?
200
Brought nearly 5 million Mexicans to the United Staes to work on farms and ranches in the Southwest.
What is Bracero program?
200
Driving force behind New York suburb Levittown.
Who is Bill Levitt?
200
Truman's agenda given to Congress. Increased minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and helped pass National Housing Act of 1949.
What is Fair Deal?
200
Disease that broke out in epidemics and baffled doctors and citizens alike.
What is polio?
300
Mostly white artists who highlighted a value gap in the 50s; lived as unconventional fugitives from a culture they despised; criticized what they considered sterility and conformity of American life, meaninglessness of American politics, and emptiness of popular culture.
Who are beats?
300
Suffered from abandonment when most people moved to cities and suburbs; left with ruined mines, scarred hills, and empty farms; elderly and less mobile residents are the only ones that stayed.
What is Appalachia?
300
Developed the more convenient vaccince for polio.
Who is Albert Sabin?
300
President Eisenhower's balance of political beliefs; balancing economic conservatism with some activism.
What is dynamic conservatism?
300
Many people moved here to the outside of the city for safety and a better life.
What is suburb?
400
Drove and provided funds for television; spawned a growing market for new products.
What is advertising?
400
Government efforts to help inner cities by tearing down slums and building new high-rise buildings.
What is urban renewal?
400
Writer who acknowledged remaining poverty; Set out to chronicle povert in the United States.
Who is Michael Harrington?
400
This act outlawed closed shops; States could pass right-to-work laws that outlawed union shops; Prohibited featherbedding.
What is Taft-Hartley Act?
400
United States launched a satellite just months after the Soviet Union in this year.
What is 1958?
500
Saved Hollywood after the downfall from television; showed movies on large, panoramic screens.
What is cinemascope?
500
Federal government withdrew all official recognition of Native Americans as legal entities and made them subject to the same laws as the white citizens.
What is termination policy?
500
Radio disc jockey who noticed popularity of African American rhythms and blues records who got permission to play such music on the air.
Who is Alan Freed?
500
Also known as the GI Bill; provided loans to to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college.
What is Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
500
A person owning one or more stores in a chain operation; uniform and style was usually expected.