Unit 5 Part 1

The birth of the largest generation of Americans born between 1946 & 1955 was called the

• Hippie Generation

• Gen X

• Millenials

• Baby Boom

The first large scale suburb of affordable housing was built in New York. It was called

• Hollywood

• Anaheim

• Levittown

• Morristown

The main style of music in the 1950's was

• jazz

• hip-hop

• country

• rock n roll

Which of the following most accurately describes planned postwar communities like Levittown?

• simple, low-cost housing for the working poor in cities

• large country homes designed to attract buyers

• small suburban homes that middle class families could afford

• custom-designed homes built to meet the needs of individual buyers

Examine the cartoon. What aspect of American society in the 1950s was the cartoonist making?

• high culture

• stay-at-home moms

• suburban conformity

• planned obsolescence

According to The Other America, which of these factors contributed least to the invisibility of the poor in the 1950s?

• The mass production of affordable clothing.

• The development of the interstate highway system.

• The migration of the middle-class to the suburbs.

• The lack of political power among low income people.

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

• Levittown

• Hershey Village

• Santa Clausville

• Arcadia Falls

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

One of the most watched TV shows in 1950s and 1960s starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball

• "I Love Lucy"

• "Leave it to Beaver"

• "Ozzie and Harriet"

• "Dragnet"