The only dog breed that does not have a pink tongue
What is the Chow
100
Became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945.
who is Harry S. Truman
100
A major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.
What is a conglomerate
100
The government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communications industries.
What is the FCC
100
Mexican hired hands working in the United States.
What is a bracero
200
The minimum amount of income needed to survive calculated by the federal government.
What is the Poverty line
200
Small residential communities surrounding cities.
What is a suburb
200
a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
What is a franchise
200
Novelist who wrote "On the Road" published in 1957, and sold over 500,000 copies
Who is Jack Kerouac
200
Eliminated federal economic support , discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
What is the Termination Policy
300
The brightest man made place on earth visible from space.
What is Las Vegas
300
Southern Democrats who opposed Truman
What is a Dixiecrat
300
Population explosion following WWII
What is the baby boom
300
Centered in San Francisco, LA, and NY, this expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
What is the beat movement
300
A proposed solution to the housing problem in inner cities
What is Urban Renewal
400
the fear of being buried alive
What is taphephobia
400
The name given to Truman's ambitious economic program.
What is the Fair Deal
400
Developed a vaccine for the crippling disease Polio
Who is Dr. Salk
400
Introduced in 1953, sales of this quickly outpaced sales of other magazines.
What is the TV Guide
400
This was passed to provide "a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family."
What is The National Housing act of 1949
500
the Indian tribe that was invited to spend Thanksgiving with the pilgrims
What is the Wampanoag Tribe
500
Baseball's MVP in 1949 who would later be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame despite all of the death threats and opposition he faced during his career.
Who is Jackie Robinson
500
The idea that manufacturers designed products to become obsolete in a short period of time.
What is planned obsolescence.
500
The unofficial "King of Rock n Roll
Who is Elvis Presley
500
Incident where an undertaker in a Texas town refused to provide Mexican Americans with funeral services.