
The Middle Class
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Social Studies
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11th Grade
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Amanda Monhollen
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was one result of the GI Bill?
The armed forces became desegregated, which helped integrate society.
World War II veterans received pensions enabling them to buy their own homes.
The middle class expanded as working class men were able to go to college.
Women could no longer work outside the home.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What characteristic marked American mainstream society in the 1950s?
frugality
overspending
individualism
conformity
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Where did rock and roll originate?
in Cleveland, where Alan Freed was a DJ
in the rhythm and blues music of black musicians such as Chuck Berry
in the jazz-inflected writings of the Beats Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
in Elvis Presley's blend of blues, country, and gospel
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What technology helped propagate consumerism and uniformity of American life in the 1950s?
AM radio
computers
television
the transistor
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which was an important effect of the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch?
The United States invested in science education and created NASA.
It initiated a race to the moon between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States developed the first hydrogen bomb.
President Eisenhower ordered NASA to build a rocket that could also hold a dog.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who developed a critique of women's role as a "domestic goddess" in The Feminine Mystique?
Alan Reisman
J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Betty Friedan
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How would you characterize teenage culture in the 1950s?
conformist
placid
rebellious
questioning
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