The 1950s

Question 1

In what year did Eisenhower balance the national budget?

Accepted Answer

1954

Question 2

Who was the Governor refused to integrate a high school in his state forcing Eisenhower to call in Federal troops?

Accepted Answer

Orval Faubus

Question 3

How quickly did the Supreme Court say that the integration of schools had to happen?

Accepted Answer

With all deliberate speed.

Question 4

The fifties brought up new changes in the work force. Which of the following statements are true?

Accepted Answer

Blue collar jobs declined while white collar jobs increased.

Question 5

What was the threat by Eisenhower over peace negotiations in North Korea called?

Accepted Answer

Atomic Diplomacy

Question 6

Which of the following was a major Supreme Court civil-rights case of the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 7

The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in the ___ .

Accepted Answer

suburbs

Question 8

Who was the African-American boy from Chicago that was killed in Mississippi by two white men?

Accepted Answer

Emmet Till

Question 9

What did the military start making nuclear powered in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

submarines

Question 10

Why is Dr. Jonas Salk important?

Accepted Answer

invented a polio vaccine

Question 11

Most Americans in the 1960s relied on _____ as their primary source of entertainment and information.

Accepted Answer

television

Question 12

Martin Luther King Jr's goal was

Accepted Answer

massive non-violent protests

Question 13

President Eisenhower once said "the biggest damn fool mistake I ever made" was

Accepted Answer

appointing Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court.

Question 14

What organization did Martin Luther King Jr help to form?

Accepted Answer

SCLC

Question 15

Southern states responded to the Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation in schools by

Accepted Answer

refusing to comply.

Question 16

About what portion of the American people lived in poverty during the prosperous 1950s?

Accepted Answer

one-fifth

Question 17

In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man beginning the

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Bus Boycotts.

Question 18

What was the importance of the transistor?

Accepted Answer

revolutionized computers in industry & radios

Question 19

What happened to the Gross National Product (GNP) and per capita income between 1945 and 1960?

Accepted Answer

They doubled.

Question 20

The Federal Highway Act of 1956 spent how much money for Federal and interstate highways?

Accepted Answer

$25 billion

Question 21

The "New Look" defense program in the 1950s emphasized

Accepted Answer

nuclear weapons.

Question 22

Wrote a best selling book called the Feminine Mystique that critiqued the American 1950s’ view of the ideal woman?

Accepted Answer

Betty Friedan

Question 23

Television in the 1950s

Accepted Answer

reinforced consumerism and conformity.

Question 24

What high school made national news when it was forcibly integrated in 1957?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock High School

Question 25

A _____________________ is a large corporation that owns a number of smaller companies.

Accepted Answer

conglomerate

Question 26

What best describes Eisenhower's political ideology?

Accepted Answer

Moderate Republican

Question 27

Many middle-class parents objected to rock-and-roll because

Accepted Answer

they linked it to sex and violence.

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