The Baby Boom

Question 1

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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

Question 2

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: the GI Bill

Question 3

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: the advertising industry.

Question 4

Which of the following statements best describes a change that impacted African Americans in the 1950s?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: Court cases challenged the legality of discrimination.

Question 5

Which two things combined to create a “car culture” in the United States in the 1950s?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

t: the growth of suburbs and the increased affordability of cars

Question 6

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

b: between 1945 and 1960

Question 7

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: 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 9

In the 1950s, more and more homes had a television mostly due to which of the following?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: the mass production of televisions

Question 10

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: the consumer culture

The Baby Boom Answers