The Baby Boom

Question 1

The availability of consumer goods and the means to buy them most led to which of the following in the 1950s?

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the consumer culture

Question 2

How did the GI Bill help the economy prosper in the 1950s? Check all that apply.

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It provided grants that enabled people to pay for college.; It offered unemployment benefits.; It made loans affordable for the purchase of homes, farms, and businesses.

Question 3

Which best describes how postwar housing practices affected African American opportunities for homeownership?

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Discriminatory policies often kept African Americans from buying homes in suburban communities.

Question 4

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

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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 5

In their TV and radio advertisements, many car companies of the 1950s promoted

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family road vacations.

Question 6

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

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William Levitt

Question 7

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

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the nation’s cities.

Question 8

Between what years did the Gross National Product (GNP) double in the United States?

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between 1945 and 1960

Question 9

Conformity and the consumer culture of the 1950s were both supported by

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the advertising industry.

Question 10

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

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“affluent society”

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