Postwar America: Key Concepts Quiz

What was the primary purpose of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, known as the GI Bill of Rights?

• To provide financial aid and educational benefits to World War II Veterans

• To integrate the armed forces

• To promote maximum employment

• To limit presidential terms

What is a suburb?

• A type of music genre

• A residential town or community near a city

• A government policy

• A type of business model

Who was the 33rd President of the United States?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Harry S Truman

• John F. Kennedy

What was the main goal of the Employment Act of 1946?

• To limit the number of presidential terms

• To promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power

• To provide housing to low-income families

• To integrate public schools

What did the Dixiecrats protest against in 1948?

• The Employment Act of 1946

• President Truman’s civil rights policy

• The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

• The Interstate Highway Act

What did the Fair Deal propose?

• To increase the minimum wage, extend social security coverage, and provide housing to low-income families

• To limit presidential terms

• To integrate the armed forces

• To promote consumerism

What did the 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951, establish?

• The integration of public schools

• The limitation of presidential terms to two

• The promotion of maximum employment

• The establishment of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

What was the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling in Brown Vs. the Board of Education of Topeka?

• Public schools must be racially integrated

• The poll tax was banned

• The reservation system was eliminated

• The Fair Deal was implemented

What is the term "inner city" used to describe?

• A type of music

• A major corporation

• The older central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods

• A government policy

What was the purpose of the Urban Renewal initiative?

• To promote consumerism

• To tear down and replace buildings in inner-city neighborhoods

• To provide educational benefits to veterans

• To limit presidential terms