General Knowledge
This is used to measure profits realized from past deployment of productive fixed capital.
What is the Rate of Return on Capital Invested (ROI)?
This person won the 1952 presidential election.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This law created the highway system.
What is the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act?
This act advanced civil rights and created Title VII.
What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
This foreign policy event saw the US and USSR almost engage in nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This grew in size during Eisenhower's presidency, largely as a result of military contractor lobbyists.
What is the military industrial complex?
These three make up the fiscal triangle.
What is government, business, and philanthropy?
This law offered tax breaks to businesses and encouraged housing investment.
What is the Internal Revenue Act of 1954?
The March on Washington occurred in this year.
What is 1963?
This was the name of LBJ's biggest domestic agenda.
What is the Great Society?
This organization was the largest postwar nonprofit.
What is the Ford Foundation?
This was responsible for multiple recessions.
What is the business cycle?
This law forbid banks from buying financial institutions headquartered in another state.
What is The Bank Holding Company Act?
African Americans were 5 times more likely to have this occur to them than white Americans.
What is be imprisoned/jailed?
This law caused an expansion of policing across the United States.
What is the Law Enforcement Assistance Act?
What is K?
This is what Dwight Eisenhower referred to as "creeping socialism".
What is the New Deal?
This law allotted more than $500 million in loans to economically distressed areas.
What is the 1961 Area Redevelopment Act?
This was created to monitor and enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
The Revenue Act of 1964 cut taxes by this amount.
What is $10 billion (10% of federal budget)?
This person created the International Style of architecture.
Who is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?
This is what Eisenhower expanded and secured, examples include Social Security and subsidies.
What is the welfare state?
This law supported agriculture and subsidies for agricultural exports.
What is the 1954 Farm Bill?
This was identified as the problem to solving racial financial inequality.
What is equality of opportunity?
This was the percentage decrease in poverty following LBJ's "War on Poverty".
What is 26%?