What was a "job" that young girls that were still in school able to do?
What is babysit.
100
How were computers in the 1950s?
What is slow, as Big as a room.
100
New music that was based on rhythm and blues.
What is rock and roll
100
Who was Elvis?
What is America's superstar. King of Rock.
100
What job were women supposed to do
What is stay home, raise children and have lots of babies.
200
From your reading/video- who were the group of people who were nonconformists? What were they called?
What is beatniks
200
What was the term that means, "all houses look the same."
What is cookie cuter houses
200
In 1950, what was the percentage of women who worked outside of the home?
What is 24%
200
How were servicemen able to afford to go to college/ or buy a new house?
What is the GI Bill of Rights.
200
Who became the president after Truman?
What is Eisenhower
300
By people living the ______ and having to transport to the city for work, what two ways was this able to be accomplished?
What is
1. suburbs
2. buying their own car
3. Federal Aid-Highway Act
300
How did scientists use atomic energy?
What is to use nuclear power
300
Who was Jonas Salk?
What is discovered the vaccine for polio
300
Describe what the baby boom was.
What is a lot of children being born.
300
Where did many stores relocate to?
What is the suburbs
400
Explain the two places people were migrating to?
What is to the west
suburbs
400
After the war, men went from ________ jobs to ______ jobs.
What is blue collar to white collar.
400
Describe why there was a "baby boom"
What is people came home from the war, majority of people got married. They had a lot of children.
400
What is the appeal of living in the suburbs?
What is less crime, family atmosphere, quiet
400
What kind of impact did tv have.
What is a big impact, economy, family
500
What was the Taft-Hartley Act? Why did they pass it?
What is after 80 days of cooling off strikers have to return to work if the industry was essential to the economy.
There was a big strike during this time.
500
Why were the teenagers of the 1950s the "silent generation"?
What is they were not concerned with world affairs
500
Why did President Truman lose his reelection?
What is because he lost support in his political party
500
Describe what modern republicanism is.
What is conservative when it came to spending, liberal when it came to people
500
What was a big advancement in medicine during this time?
What is polio vaccine, penicillin, and heart surgery