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WorksheetsUnit 7 Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Having a large amount of money and owning many expensive things best describes
Affluence
Conformity
Baby Boom
Consumerism
Having the same behavior as other people in a society or group best describes
Affluence
Conformity
Baby Boom
Consumerism
Increased spending on goods such as cars, appliances, clothes best describes:
Affluence
Conformity
Baby Boom
Consumerism
All of the following are factors that led to the growth of consumerism (buying goods) in the 1950s EXCEPT
Strong economic growth
Television Advertising
Widespread availability of credit and credit cards
Weak economic growth
These laws allowed millions of veterans to attend college.
Provided tuition support Low cost college loans
Civil Rights Act
G.I. Bill
Voting Rights Act
Motor Voter Bill
A large increase in the number of births in the US after World War 2 was known as the
Baby Surplus
Baby boomerang
Buy buy baby
Baby boom
The baby boom had the large impact on which of the following:
consumerism - people bought more things
Urbanization - people moving to cities
Automobile safety
Hospitalization - more people in the hospital
The need to connected cities and suburbs allowed people to travel to work in cities and around the country led to the creation of the
Urbanization - more people living in cities
Increased consumerism
Interstate Highway System
Development of high speed railroads
People moving from cities to areas near but outside the city best describes
Urbanization
Urbana Maryland
Suburbanization
Suboptimization
The Interstate Highway System lead to Americans spending more on new things like drive-in restaurants, drive-in movie theaters, road trips - this was known as
Car culture
Wanderlust
Mobilization
Suburbanization
This Supreme Court case that required ALL american schools to end segregation and integrate schools.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
State of New Jersey vs. TLO
Griswold vs. Connecticut
The name of seven large suburban housing developments (with nearly identical houses) created in the United States during the 1950s were called
Kentlands
Urbana
Gaithersburg
Levittown
In 1955 the brutal murder of this 14 year old boy, and the pictures of his body was a spark for the civil rights movement
Emmett Till
Rosa Parks
Medgar Evers
James Farmer
This philosophy preaches non-violence - people would break laws that were unjust. Idea is that by breaking law and being arrested - you are bringing attention to this unjust law to get people to change it.
Boycott
Civil Disobedience
Passive Resistance
Rioting
Seen as the first victory for non-violent civil disobedience. AA’s protested racist policies in Montgomery Alabama by
boycotting city buses
buying only from black run businesses
holding "sit-ins" at lunch counters
marching on Washington D.C.
Starting in Greensboro NC, students sat at a white only lunch counter and were arrested. This inspired many other people to do the same thing at other restaurants and public places. This describes the
march on Selma
Montgomery bus boycott
Sit in movement
Birmingham campaign
This event, had hundreds of thousands of people came to hear MLK speak. He gave the “I have a dream” speech, which helped convince many people that AA’s must get equal rights.
march on Selma
Little Rock Nine
march on Washington
Montgomery bus boycott
To protest lack of voting rights, AA’s peacefully marched and were attacked by the police. People saw the film on the news and were shocked by the police brutally. This event helped lead to the Voter Rights Act.
march on selma
march on Washington
Little Rock Nine
Sit in movement
This law outlawed discrimination in public places and in employment (jobs).
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown vs. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The New Deal
This law protected AA’s voting rights from illegal practices like poll taxes and literacy tests. This led to a huge increase in the number of AA’s that were registered to vote.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown vs. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The New Deal
To keep AA's from voting, some southern states required people to pay a fee before they could vote these were called
Poll Taxes
Grandfather Clauses
Literacy Tests
Separate but equal
To keep African Americans from voting, some southern states required AA's to pay unfair tests before they could register to vote - they were known as
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
History Tests
Grandfather clauses
After the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board that all schools must integrate, many southern states
quickly integrated schools
did little to integrate schools
challenged the decision in court
voted for Kennedy for President
Nine African American students chosen to attend the all white Central High School in Arkansas were known as the
Little Rock Nine
Selma Nine
Arkansas Integration Team
The Special Niners
President Eisenhower sent US army troops to Little Rock to protect the AA's students and allow them to go to the all white high school because,
It was an election year
The state was not following federal laws
He wanted to protest the Brown v. Board decision
He wanted to take over Arkansas
