
Fabulous Fifties

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9th - 12th Grade
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Leslie Smith
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What factor contributed to increased consumerism in the 1950s?
Advertising
Television
New housing starts
War time rationing
all of the above
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Where were the majority of new homes built in 1950s?
Sun Belt
suburbs
Rust Belt
cities
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Famous for mass producing homes to meet high demand by young families
Jonas Salk
Thurgood Marshall
William Levitt
Ray Kroc
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An economic shift away from manufacturing led to an increase in _____ jobs.
agricultural
blue collar
pink collar
white collar
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After the devastation of the Great Depression and WWII, many Americans viewed _____ as a way to promote a peacful and prosperoud society.
consumerism
conformity
communism
planned obsolescence
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What contributed to the decay of U.S. cities by the 1960s?
Franchises
Jim Crow Laws
White Flight
Planned Obsolescence
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The 1950s counterculture that rejected mainstream ideas
Hippies
Beatniks
Baby Boomers
Black Panthers
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