Ch.42 Two Americas

The title "The Other America" is .....

• the title of a Bob Dylan song

• a book written by M. Harrington in 1962

• a famous poem by Langston Hughes

• a documentary series from the 1950s

What is the "poverty line"?

• the maximum income needed to meet basic needs

• the income needed to hold a respectable place in society

• income basis for the elderly and unemployed

• the minimum income needed to meet basic needs

Which of these statements BEST describes the impact of “The Other America” when it was published in 1962?

• It incited riots among poverty-stricken minorities.

• It was ignored by politicians, who blamed the poor for their poverty

• It led to the formation of a new political party for people in poverty

• . It woke up the nation to the reality that poverty still existed in many places

Which of the following is true of poverty in the late 1950s?

• The average age of a person living in poverty was 20 in the late 1950s

• Around one in four Americans was living in poverty in the late 1950s

• The poor population was mostly blue-collar workers in the late 1950s.

• Poverty stricken areas were very far from affluent areas in the late 1950s

What was the Housing Act of 1949?

• an act the moved the poverty stricken to rural areas across America

• an act the created Hull House

• an act that created public housing and urban renewal programs

• an act that authorized the resettlement of the poor into commercial business districts

How did the Housing Act of 1949 worsen poverty, rather than help it?

• It caused hundreds of thousands of poor people to be displaced from their homes

• It raised the cost of owning a house, causing middle-class people to lose money.

• It increased the price of other necessities, such as education and grocery items.

• It discriminated against African Americans who often needed the housing the most

How did the rise of agribusiness in the 1950s hurt small farmers

• by hiring small farmers to run corporate farms

• by buying land once owned by small farmers

• by driving seed and fertilizer prices up for small farmers

• . by producing crops more efficiently than small farmers could

Which of these following areas would NOT be part of Appalachia?

• Eastern Kentucky

• West Virginia

• Atlantic Coast

• Eastern Tennessee

In Appalachia, the demand for which product fell during the 1950s?

• oil

• coal

• farm products

• lumber products

What impact did the termination policy have on many Indian tribes during the 1950s?

• They fell deeper into poverty.

• They expanded their reservation lands.

• They became economically self-reliant.

• They lost their chance to relocate to cities.