Gave grants to attend college and loans to start businesses and buy homes to veterans.
What is the G. I. Bill of Rights?
100
Republican winner of the 1952 election. 1st Republican Presidential elect in a 20 year period.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
Case that stated segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)?
100
The most popular TV show of 1950s.
What is "I Love Lucy"?
100
Lead attorney for the NAACP that ended desegregation in schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
Two groups of people that lost their jobs to returning veterans.
Who are African-Americans and Women?
200
"Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to people."
What is Modern Republicanism?
200
Case that determined segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KS (1954)?
200
Greatly increased production in factories and led to the elimination of many blue collar jobs.
What is automation?
200
Crowned the "King of Rock and Roll"?
Who is Elvis Presley?
300
Bill designed to reduce the strength of unions. Gave judges the right to end some strikes and outlaw closed-shop agreements.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act
300
Nursing, teaching, retail sales, and low-level clerical work
What are pink-collared jobs?
300
Demonstration against segregation in public transprotation.
What is The Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
Group that helped lead the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama.
What is The Montgomery Improvement Association.
300
Chief Justice of the Supremem Court that ruled during the 1950s and 60s.
Who is Earl Warren?
400
Promise of full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, expansion of welfare benefits to more people.
What is Truman's Fair Deal?
400
Law passed to make it easier for commuters to make it from the suburbs back into their jobs in the city.
What is the Highway Act of 1956?
400
Mexican-American war veteran killed in WWII and denied burial in the cemetary in his hometown?
Who is Felix Longoria?
400
Fear that the listening of ____, would lead to their childrens _____, or antisocial behavior.
What is rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency?
400
The nominee of the "Dixiecrats"?
Who is J. Strom Thurmond?
500
The official name of the "Dixiecrats" political party.
What is the States' Rights Party?
500
The creator of the Polio Vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
500
Created to improve inner-city housing, replace oldrun-down inner-coty buildings with new ones.
What are urban renewal programs?
500
Implemented by the Eisenhower administration, to force Native Americans to move off of their reservations.
What is the Relocation Act of 1956?
500
Seamstress that was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.