Programs, Laws and Bills
The name of the first 10 amendments.
What is Bill of Rights?
Evlis Presley became known as the king of this style of music, popularized in the 1950s and based on African American rhythm and blues.
What is Rock N Roll?
This region of the United States has an economy built around coal, and saw a steady decline in the 1950s.
What is Appalachia?
The American birthrate exploded after WW2, earning this nickname.
What is the Baby-Boom?
Mr. Clark has this type of pet, who loves eating chocolate.
What is a dumb Dog?
The name of the largest public works program in American history, creating more than 40,000 miles of interstate among other major construction projects.
What is the Federal Highway Act?
The name given to jobs that are typically associated with manual labor.
What are Blue Collar jobs?
This social issue facing America in the 1950s led to an increase in school enrollment.
What is Juvenile Delinquency?
When a person owns and runs one or several stores of a chain operation.
What is a Franchise?
Mr. Clark's dominant hand.
What is Left?
This bill provided funding for veterans to buy homes, attend college, and start businesses.
What is the G.I. Bill?
The name of one of the earliest mass produced suburbs.
What is Levitttown?
This program brought nearly 5 million Mexicans to the United States to work on farms and ranches in the southwest.
What is the Bracero Program?
What is I Love Lucy?
This United Football League team plays in Detroit, and you can buy pretty good tickets for 25 bucks.
Who are the Michigan Panthers?
This government program attempted to eliminate poverty by creating affordable housing in high-rise apartments, but ultimately failed.
What is Urban Renewal?
The name given to jobs that took place in offices and were connected to the rise of global corporations. These Jobs also increased heavily in the 1950s.
What are White Collar Jobs?
The figure the government sets every year to reflect the minimum income required to support a family.
What is the poverty line?
Dr. Jonas Salk developed a Vaccine for this disease, also the same disease that President Franklin Roosevelt had.
What is Polio?
The Detroit Tigers are beating this team 11-6 in the bottom of the 8th as I make this jeopardy.
Who are the St. Louis Cardinals?
The name of the law that gives workers the freedom to choose whether or not they want to join a union at their workplace
What are Right-to-Work laws?
Who are Little Richard and Chuck Berry?
In what is known as the termination policy, the federal government withdrew all official recognition of this group of people as legal entities.
Who are Native Americans/Indigenous peoples?
This president served during the 1950s, and was famous for vetoing the Taft-Hartley Act.
Who is President Truman?
This country singer has been the top artist on Mr. Clark's Spotify wrapped for 4 consecutive years.
Who is Morgan Wallen?