Chapter 14 Test

After much of his domestic legislative agenda was defeated, President Truman criticized the majority Republican Congress as the

• “Dixiecrat Congress.”

• “Do-Nothing Congress.”

• “Featherbedding Congress.”

• “Middle-of-the-Road Congress.”

In the 1948 presidential election, some Democrats abandoned the party and formed the States’ Rights Party as a reaction to President Truman’s

• aggressive federal spending.

• anti-Soviet foreign policy.

• support of big business.

• support of civil rights.

The Federal Highway Act of 1956 provided for the construction of the interstate highway system, and exemplified President Eisenhower’s policy of

• dynamic conservatism.

• economic abundance.

• the “fair deal.”

• “middle of the road.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term “creeping socialism” to refer to

• the expansion of Social Security.

• the expansion of the welfare system.

• federal aid to businesses.

• public support for national health care.

When workers in the mining industry went on strike for better pay, President Truman ended the strike by ordering government seizure of mines while also

• pressuring mine owners to grant most union demands.

• pressuring strikers to accept a minimal pay increase.

• pushing through a law that banned further strikes.

• pushing through a law that required negotiating with unions.

After World War II, labor unrest in the automobile, steel, electrical, and mining industries was triggered by

• falling wages.

• lack of jobs.

• poor working conditions.

• rising inflation.

Which of the following reforms passed by Congress under President Truman’s Fair Deal program most likely had an immediate economic effect on workers?

• extending Social Security to 10 million more people

• increasing Social Security benefits by 75%

• National Housing Act of 1949

• raising the minimum wage to .75 an hour

Suburbs accounted for about 85 percent of new home construction in the 1950s, and many people believed suburbs offered

• a better life.

• the GI Bill.

• a departure from traditional values.

• homes closer to their jobs.

The 1950s saw major advances in science, including medical breakthroughs that led to improved treatments for cancer, polio, and

• Alzheimer’s disease.

• pneumonia.

• influenza.

• heart disease.

Although most Americans in the 1950s assumed that the country’s prosperity provided everyone with a comfortable existence, at least one in five Americans

• did not have access to medical care.

• lived below the poverty line.

• lived in crowded housing projects.

• struggled against discrimination.