Chapter 16 Test Review 5th grade America Changes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the general situation in postwar America? 

• Low unemployment

• Great Depression

• Population decrease

• Equality for all

Multiple Choice

While families were growing, the nation was experiencing a housing shortage. What solved this issue for many Americans?

• Cities allowed industrial spaces to be used as housing.

• Many inexpensive houses were built in the suburbs.

• Extended families shared homes that were too small.

• Improved railroads changed the way people traveled.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was one effect of television?

• Entertainers became major national stars.

• Baseball became the national pastime.

• A band called the Beatles formed.

• Richard Nixon was elected President.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes Levittown? 

• A famous site of a bus boycott

• The reason interstate highways were built

• One of the first large communities built outside a city

• The title of a popular television show

Multiple Choice

Read the passage. Then answer the question.

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower announced funding for a new interstate highway system. New roads connected suburbs with cities and cities with one another. More efficient distribution of goods contributed further to the booming economy.

        Based on the passage, what generalization can be made about transportation in the 1950s?

    

• More people were using cars than ever before.

• New government programs were good for the economy.

• Better transportation helped to improve the economy.

• Many people were able to get jobs building highways.the economy.

Multiple Choice

Transistor radios, televisions, and direct-dial telephone service are all examples of which of the following?

• Signs of the Great Depression

• Peacetime technologies

• Sources of political change

• Effects of World War II

Multiple Choice

Why did many people believe John Kennedy won the 1960 presidential debates against Richard Nixon?

• Kennedy looked better on television than Nixon.

• Nixon was already trailing Kennedy in the polls.

•   Nixon did not clearly state his political agenda.

• Kennedy had more experience debating on television.

Multiple Choice

The unfair treatment of people based on race or gender is known as —

• segregation

• the color barrier

• civil rights

• discrimination

Multiple Choice

Read the passage. Then answer the question.

In 1896, the Supreme Court judged a now-famous legal case, Plessy v. Ferguson. It said that separation of races in public places was legal if the facilities, though separate, were equal.

 

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling was used to uphold what practice?

  

•   Integration

• The color barrier

•   Segregation

• Civil rights

Multiple Choice

How did President Harry Truman further the cause of civil rights?

• By supporting the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• By starting the war on poverty

• By proposing legislation to guarantee voting rights

• By issuing an executive order integrating the armed forces

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a true statement about Rosa Parks?

• She became a civil rights activist after hearing Martin Luther King, Jr. speak.

• She was a member of the NAACP who protested segregation by refusing         to sit in the back of the bus.

• She was a lawyer who helped outlaw segregation in public schools.

• She became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Multiple Choice

Look at the picture. Then answer the question.

  

The sign is an example of which of the following practices?

• Civil rights

• Segregation

• Freedom rides

• Integration

Multiple Choice

Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice?    

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clarence Thomas

• Roy Wilkins

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed under which American President? 

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Ronald Reagan

Multiple Choice

Medicare, Medicaid, and the Job Corps all began under President Johnson. These programs were the result of —

• the Environmental Protection Agency

• the civil rights movement

• the Great Society

• the Equal Pay Act

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes Title IX?  

• It was a federal law that opened school athletics to girls and women.

• It was a federal law that guaranteed African American voting rights.

• It was a state law that provided Head Start programs for children.

• It was a state law that set up affirmative action programs.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was one of Jimmy Carter’s achievements as President? 

• Freeing the hostages in Iran using peace talks

• Pardoning Richard Nixon for his impeachment

• Increasing oil imports from foreign countries

• Negotiating a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

Multiple Choice

What was one effect of the Watergate scandal?

• Many Americans lost faith in government.

• Richard Nixon was impeached.

• Iran took American hostages.

• Gerald Ford was elected President.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage. Then answer the question.

 

Many American Indians lived on reservations, where conditions were terrible. In the 1950s and 1960s, American Indians began to work together. Groups such as the American Indian Movement (AIM) marched in Washington for fair and better treatment.

 

         Based on the passage, which of the following generalizations best describes the American Indian Movement?

  

• It had popular support among many white Americans.

• It was formed to protect the rights of American Indians.

•    It had most of its success by winning court cases.

• It was the first organization to work for American Indian rights.

Multiple Choice

Based on the graph, which of the following generalizations best describes American life in 1960?     

• Fewer families could afford televisions and relied on radio for news instead.

• The price of televisions rose sharply over the years.

• Technology did not improve the television very much.

• People watched more television than they ever had before.