The Baby Boom

Question 1

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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 2

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the mass production of televisions

Question 3

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

William Levitt

Question 5

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the consumer culture

Question 6

mostly

Revolt · Accepted Answer

a sign of status and success.

The Baby Boom Answers