Chapter 15 Quiz Review

Who was the G.I. Bill designed to help?

• World War II veterans
• teachers

• engineers

• government officials

Name 2 ways the G.I. Bill helped.

• Provided free healthcare for children

• Established a retirement fund for elderly

• Provided financial assistance for education & housing

Placing too much emphasis on the things money can buy is called

• hedonism
• materialism
• communism

Which President presented a new program called the Fair Deal to provide government aid for health insurance, education, housing, and a higher minimum wage?

• Franklin D.Roosevelt

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Harry Truman

What were laws that kept black Americans segregated from white Americans?

• Voting Rights Act
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Jim Crow laws

Discrimination is unfair treatment based on a

• prejudice

• social status
• opinion

Brown v. Board of Education was an important case in 1954. Which is NOT a detail about this case?

• It was for a 3rd grade black student to attend a white school.

• Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer who spoke to end segregation.

• Supreme Court ruled black and white children could go to same school.

• There was no winner.

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist. What is NOT a fact about her situation?

• She was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
• She willingly gave up her seat.
• This event led to a bus boycott.

• She had a previous ruin with the bus driver.

The ________________________________________ was an organization of world leaders that was a world peace-keeping organization created at the end of WW2.

• National Honor Society

• World Health Organization
• United Nations

What was the Cold War?

• a period of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States

• A military conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact
• A peaceful negotiation between world leaders