Postwar America

Which of the following gave veterans an opportunity to get an education, start a new business and buy new houses?

• GI Bill of Rights
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Jim Crow Laws
• The Fair Deal

In the 1950's most homes were built in the

• Cities
• Rural Areas
• Military bases
• Suburbs

Which of the following is an early example of using assembly line techniques to build inexpensive suburban houses?

• The Villages
• Suburban Heights
• Levittown
• New York City

What action was taken by President Harry Truman in 1948 to further the cause of civil rights?

• He ended segregation in the armed forces and government
• He persuaded Congress to pass desegregation laws
• He introduced the G. I. Bill to help veterans returning from the war
• He convinced Congress to pass anti-lynching laws

Who were the Dixiecrats?

• Former Democrats that fought federal civil rights legislation
• Republicans that fought federal civil rights legislation
• New Democrats that fought minimum wage legislation
• A new party that combined Republican and Democratic Party values

President Truman threatened to ___ striking workers to prevent strikes from crippling the nation. 

• arrest
• sue
• draft
• deport

Most ___ enjoyed the prosperity of the postwar period 

• Latinos
• African Americans
• white Americans
• Mexican Americans

He mass produced houses: one model, interchangeable parts, and affordable to the middle class

• Henry Ford

• William Levitt

• Alfred Kinsey

• Richard Nixon

She exposed the feelings of alienation among white, middle class, women in the 1950s

• Ethel Rosenberg

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Betty Friedan

• Michelle Obama

Betty Friedan's landmark book, published in 1963, is titled:

• The Vindication of the Rights of Women

• The Feminine Mystique

• Revolution from Within

• The Unhappy Housewife