Emergence of the Modern Civil Rights Movement
The Affluent Society and "The Other America"
Consensus and Conformity: Suburbia and Middle-Class America
Social Critics, Nonconformists, and Cultural Rebels
Impacts of Changes in Science, Technology, and Medicine
100
What was the outcome of Brown v. Education?
What is racial separation in public schools was unconstitutional.
100
What kind of jobs were women working in the fifties?
What were in offices, classrooms, and in hospitals.
100
What was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956?
What is the act that created the Interstate Highway System.
100
What were some of the pastimes for young people in the fifties?
What is owning cars, cruising highways, and going to fast food restaurants and drive-in movies.
100
True or false: technology developments contributed to the modern technology of today?
What is true.
200
Who formed SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) in 1957?
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
Operation wetback was not a round up of illegal immigrants in America.
What is fasle.
200
True or false: blacks did not move to the areas that the white middle class people left behind.
What is false.
200
How was rock and roll different from other music in the fifties?
What is rock and roll was more sexually open than older generations were used to, created for young people, and performed by young people.
200
True or false: the Salk vaccine was effective in preventing polio?
What is true.
300
Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?
Who is Rosa Parks.
300
True or false: many women continued to work when their husbands came back from the war?
What is false.
300
What was "white flight"?
What is a time period in which white people moved left big cities and moved to suburban areas.
300
What was Sputnik?
What is the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth.
400
Which President sent the Naval Guard to escort nine black students into Little Rock's Central High School?
Who is President Eisenhower.
400
Due to the nation's booming economy, what items were Americans purchasing?
What were cars, television sets, and other household appliances.
400
What is the name of the couple who started McDonald's?
Who is Maurice and Richard McDonald.
400
What were some of the things critics said about the fifties?
What were a wasteland of ticky-tack houses, bored men going to work, and greedy, demanding, children.
400
Why did President Truman allow the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) to be created.
What is the developers of the bomb believed that Russia would also try to create the bomb as well.
500
In what year was Emmett Till murdered?
What is 1955.
500
What was the bracero program?
What is the program that brought Mexican workers to to America to work on the nation's farms.
500
What was considered an idyllic suburban family in the fifties?
What is a working husband, a housewife, and two or more children.
500
What was the name of the hairstyle that young rebel boys wore?
What is the ducktail.
500
In what year was the first commercial computer invented?
What is 1951.
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