Ch. 16 & 17 U.S. History Test Part II

1. Term used to describe the types of careers in which people mainly worked in offices?

• Blue-Collar
• Red-Collar
• White-Collar
• Black-Collar

2. This became the most popular form of music among the youth of America during the 1950's.

• Jazz
• Blue Grass
• Gospel
• Rock n' Roll

3. Nickname given to members of the Beat Generation

• Beatniks
• Hippies
• Punks
• D-Generates

4. Name given to President Kennedy's wide-sweeping legislative agenda?

• New Frontier
• Fair Deal
• New Deal
• The Great Society

5. Dixiecrats was the nickname given to the conservative members of the Democratic Party from this region?

• Northeast
• Mid-West
• South
• Mountain West

6. The Equal Pay Act was designed to affirm the right of _________________ to equal paid employment.

• African-Americans
• Hispanic Americans
• Women
• Union Members

7. This Supreme Court Case, decided upon in 1963, establishes a suspects' right to a court appointed attorney?

• Baker v Carr
• Mapp v Ohio
• Reynolds v Sims
• Gideon v Wainwright

8. This organization, established during the Kennedy Presidency, sent Americans abroad to provide humanitarian services to countries in the developing world.

• Job Corps
• Peace Corps
• VISTA
• Head Start

9. This was the term for NASA's project to reach the moon?

• Apollo Program
• Artemis Program
• Gemini Program
• Challenger Program

10. This was built by the Soviets to prevent people from leaving communist countries of Eastern Europe?

• The Prague Wall
• The Dresden Wall
• The Warsaw Wall
• The Berlin Wall