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Worksheets1950s 2 Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What are veterans?
People who live in the suburbs
People who have been soldiers
People who work for the government
People born in the 1950s
What was the Baby Boom?
When many babies were born in the 1950s
When babies were born in 1999
When babies were born at the same hospital
People moving to the suburbs
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
A law about houses
The first ten amendments to the Constitution
The first law about vaccines
A law that helps veterans get loans
What are suburbs?
Hospitals for veterans
Cars
Areas near cities
Cities
What is polio?
a disease that cases leg muscles to become weak
a disease that causes lung problems
a special wheelchair
FDR's dog's name
What is a vaccine?
An email about diseases
A school for children in suburbs
A kind of medicine that stops people from getting a disease
A medicine for veterans
Who created the polio vaccine?
JFK
FDR
James Garfield
Jonas Salk
What is a generation?
a group of people in the same school
a group of people born around the same time
an advertisement
an area outside the city
What is a decade?
100 years
50 days
40 years
10 years
Who was the president from 1953 - 1961?
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
By 1960, _____ of the US population lived in the suburbs
4/5
1/3
25%
1/2
The Interstate Highway Act meant that
New highways were built and it was easier to travel by car
More people traveled by planes
Highways had to be cleaned everyday
Presidents could build new highways anytime they wanted
Which of the following was NOT a reason for moving to the suburbs?
Loans from the GI Bill made buying houses in the suburbs easier
Many people wanted to start familes
New highways made it easier to travel to and from work in cities
Suburbs had many single people living there
What are consumer goods?
Trees and flowers
Library books
People who work in stores
Products that people buy, such as cars or telephones.
Where was the polio vaccine developed?
Pittsburgh
New York City
Chicago
Washington, D.C.
What is communism?
A system where the government owns most land and businesses
A system where people vote for leaders and have a lot of freedom
US
Outside cities
What is democracy?
A system where the government owns most of the businesses and land
A system where people vote for leaders and have a lot of freedom
USSR
Outside cities
Who said that communists were hiding in the US?
Joseph Stalin
President Truman
President Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
This group looked for communists in the US
The Senate
McCarthy
The Un-American Activities Committee
Communist detectives
What happened to Joseph McCarthy?
He became president
He moved to the suburbs
People found out he didn't have evidence about communists
He became the vice president
