Life in the Fifties

What was the GI Bill?

• Helped Veterans afford houses

• Helped people named Bill buy a house

• Discrimination bill against African Americans

Why didn't William Levitt want to sell to African Americans?

• Because he thought the values of the home would drop drastically

• Because he wasn't allowed to by law

• Because they weren't veterans

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

• Hollywood

• Anaheim

• Levittown

• Morristown

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

• Hippie Generation

• Gen X

• Millenials

• Baby Boom

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

Singer from Memphis, Tennessee whose music awoke of generation of young people to the sounds of rock n' roll

• Elvis Presley

• Little Richard

• Bill Haley and the Comets

• James Dean

After the war, the ___?___ replaced radio and movies as the main entertainment for American families.

• television

• YouTube

• internet

• community swimming pool

Suburbia as the "American Dream" represented

• conformity.

• stability.

• happiness.

• All of the above