Prosperity & Change in the 1950s
The increased birth rate that took place after WWII.
What is the "baby boom"?
The name for white people moving from cities to suburbs because people of color moved into the cities.
What is "white flight"?
The term for people who were linked to the antiwar movement and counterculture in the 1960s.
What are hippies?
The Motion Pictures Association of America developed this in 1968.
What is the rating system?
A piece of technology from 1949 that was in nearly every house by the end of the 1950s.
What is a TV?
Groups of people who had a difficult time escaping poverty.
Who are Latinos and African Americans?
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez revived this type of music in the form of protest songs.
What is folk music?
This is a really famous pop artist who created montages of famous products and people.
Who was Andy Warhol?
A musician who borrowed styles from African American performers like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
Who was Elvis Presley?
Many people thought this caused Americans to ignore the plight of the nation's poor.
What is materialism?
The Beatles contribute to this genre of music.
What is rock?
Name the 1950s artist that sings these lyrics: "The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing.
You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing."
Who is Elvis Presley?
With this invention in the 1950s, a person could buy a product today and pay for it later, a little at a time.
What is a credit card (or payment plan)?
The coal industry declined here, and 1.5 million people left for cities.
What is Appalachia?
"Girl groups" (like the Ronettes) and Motown (like the Temptations and Smokey Robinson) are two categories of music in this genre.
What is pop rock?
Name the 1960s band that sings these lyrics: "If everybody had an ocean
Across the U. S. A.
Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californi-a
You'd seem 'em wearing their baggies
Huarachi sandals too
A bushy bushy blonde hairdo
Surfin' U. S. A."
Who are The Beach Boys?
One of the first rock hits, by Bill Haley.
What is "Rock Around the Clock"?
Writers who looked closely at the plight of the nation's poor and rejected materialism, capitalism, and so on.
Who are "Beats"?
This is a book that was written in the 1960s that exhibited amazing variety and experimentation.
Several correct answers...what is: To Kill a Mockingbird, Stranger in a Strange Land, Catch-22, I know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
The Department of Defense developed this to combat potential vulnerability of computers.
What is ARPANET?