The Baby Boom - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

One of the benefits of the new suburban lifestyle of the 1950s was that

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B: suburban homes had yards and crime was low.

Question 2

Which phrase was used by economist John Kenneth Galbraith to describe the prosperity of the 1950s?

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D: “affluent society”

Question 3

Owning a car during the 1950s in the United States was mostly

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B: a sign of status and success.

Question 4

Which of the following most contributed to the postwar baby boom?

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C: the GI Bill

Question 5

Which of the following statements best describes the postwar US economy?

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C: Experts incorrectly predicted that an economic collapse would follow the end of World War II.

Question 6

The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the growth of suburbs both had a negative impact on

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C: the nation’s cities.

Question 7

How did “car culture” in the United States affect the new migration of the 1950s?

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B: The new highway system, which resulted from the car culture, made it easier for people to migrate from the North and East to the South and West.

Question 8

Who applied assembly-line techniques to home construction in the 1950s?

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A: William Levitt

Question 9

Which of the following gave the American economy a major boost in the years after World War II?

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B: a pent-up demand for consumer goods

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