Worksheets1950s Prosperity Vocab
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Veterans settled down and had families, 76 million Americans born between 1946-1964
a)
Suburban Sprawl
b)
Veteran Surge
c)
Generation X
d)
Baby Boomers
2.
Lots of wealth and low unemployment; the economy is in a good state.
a)
Prosperity
b)
Recession
c)
Boom
d)
G.I. Bill
3.
Veterans were paid to go to college and obtain home loans easier.
a)
G.I. Bill
b)
Infantryman Act
c)
Selective Service Act
d)
Interstate Commerce for Veterans Act
4.
An area between the urban and rural areas.
a)
Urban Blight
b)
Suburbs
c)
Urban Sprawl
d)
Intrastate Avenues
5.
Television
a)
A device that puts images and sounds on a screen.
b)
Allowed for instant communication
c)
Created a new form of communication
d)
A device that puts images on a screen
6.
Lots of advertising and spending
a)
Prosperity
b)
Mass Consumerism
c)
Mass Media
d)
Spending Boom
7.
Create a system of federal highways to connect major cities across the country.
a)
The I-05 Plan
b)
Superhighway Bill
c)
Interstate Highway Act
d)
Eisenhower Plan
8.
American doctor who created the first polio vaccine, making people immune to polio.
a)
John Watson
b)
Marie Curie
c)
Alfred Nobel
d)
Jonas Salk
9.
Beat Generation/Beatniks
a)
Writers and their followers who fought against the culture of the 1950s
b)
McCarthy Loyalists working to expose Communists
c)
The name of the foundrs of Rock and Roll
d)
The creaters of the first Civil Rights Movement
10.
New music style that used African American musical melodies and new instruments.
a)
Rock and Roll
b)
Blues
c)
Swing
d)
Metal
11.
A way of life going against the popular culture/ideas of the time.
a)
Opposition
b)
Counterculture
c)
Civil Disobedience
d)
Communism
12.
Tractors and fertilizer caused food production to increase rapidly.
a)
The Farm Bust
b)
Great Plains Revival
c)
The Agricultural Boom
d)
The Million Farmer March
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