Unit 8.2 1950s-1960s Culture

Created under Eisenhower, this was the largest public works project in history

• Federal Highway Act

• Fair Deal

• GI Bill of Rights

• 22nd Amendment

What was President Harry Truman's domestic policy called?

• the Fair Deal

• the New Deal

• the GI Bill of Rights

• the Good Neighbor Policy

Which Congress did Truman label the "do nothing, good for nothing"?

• 18th Congress

• 80th Congress

• 75th Congress

• 1st Congress

The GI Bill of Rights helped returning veterans

• get an education.

• find jobs.

• secure housing.

• All of the above

The 22nd Amendment

• limited the president to two full terms in office.

• repealed the GI Bill of Rights after the government realized how much money they were losing.

• allowed for the direct election of Supreme Court justices.

• authorized military and financial aid to Easter Europe.

First established in Nassau County, Long Island; led to suburbia

• Levittown

• Hershey Village

• Santa Clausville

• Arcadia Falls

The U.S. baby boom increased the population by more than 65 million between

• 1940-1950

• 1945-1961

• 1955-1970

• 1975-1980

Beatnik writer, Jack Kerouac wrote the classic

• On the Road.

• How Maguire Got His Groove Back.

• Little Boxes.

• The Grapes of Wrath.

The 1950s exposed a generational gap between parents and their children, especially was teenagers began listening to rock n' roll.

• True

• False

Governor Strom Thurmond, a Dixiecrat in the 1948 presidential election, was from

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Kentucky

• Mississippi