Chapter 16 & 17 Review

Servicemen's Readjustment Act, AKA: GI Bill, provided returning soldiers from WWII funds for all of the following except

• To help them buy homes

• Attend college

• Establish businesses

• To re-enlist as officers

The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, curbed the activities of....

• Labor Unions

• Communists

• Multinational Corporations

• Republicans

Term given to the ambitious set of domestic policies & reforms proposed by President Truman

• New Frontier

• New Deal

• Fair Deal

• The Great Society

"Dynamic Conservatism" was this President's plan to balance economic conservatism with activism in areas that would benefit the country

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

All of the following statements about the Federal Highway Act are true except

• It placed an emphasis on state highways

• Largest public works project in American history

• Appropriated $25 billion in road construction

• Constructed more than 40,000 miles of interstate highways

Term used to describe the types of careers in which people mainly worked in offices

• Blue-Collar

• Red-Collar

• White-Collar

• Black-Collar

This became the most popular form of music among the youth of American during the 1950s

• Jazz

• Blue Grass

• Gospel

• Rock n Roll

Nickmae given to members of the Beat Generation

• Beatniks

• Hippies

• Punks

• D-Generates

Name given to President Kennedy's wide-sweeping legislative agenda

• New Frontier

• New Deal

• Fair Deal

• The Great Society

Dixiecrats was the nickname given to the conservative members of the Democratic Party from this region

• Northeast

• South

• Midwest

• Mountain West