Postwar America

Which of the following was a problem postwar America faced?

• rising unemployment

• falling wages

• inflation

• food shortages

How did Truman try to end the strike crisis?

• He appointed mediators to negotiate wages.

• He threatened to draft strikers into the military.

• He raised minimum wage to $2.

• He declared a national emergency and ordered the strikers back to work.

Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the Taft-Hartley Act passed by the Republican Congress?

• It outlawed the closed shop.

• It outlawed the union shop.

• It outlawed featherbedding.

• Unions had to contribute money evenly between the major political parties.

A ______ shop is a business in which new workers were required to join the union.

• closed

• union

• open

• labor

Why did Southern Democrats abandon their support of Truman?

• He wanted to draft strikers into the military.

• They didn't support his Cold War policies.

• They didn't support his nationalized health insurance plan.

• They didn't support his civil rights bill.

Who was the heavy favorite going into the election of 1948?

• Thomas Dewey

• Harry Truman

• Strom Thurman

• Henry Wallace

The State's Rights Party was commonly known as the ______.

• Progressive Party

• Dixiecrats

• Populist Party

• Confederates

Truman nicknamed the Republican Congress the ______.

• good ole boys

• Grand Old Party

• do nothing Congress

• elephants

Truman's domestic agenda was called the _______.

• New Deal II

• Square Deal

• Great Deal

• Fair Deal

The New Democratic Congress passed all of Truman's ideas except ______.

• extending Social Security to more Americans

• raising minimum wage to 75 cents

• his civil rights bill

• the National Housing Act