Font size
WorksheetsCh. 16 America Changes
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 10mins
Check all that were true about post-war America
growing population
growing economy
low unemployment
equality for all
What solved the housing shortage?
free houses for all
suburbs were developed
credit cards
more televisions in homes
What is the name of the first "instant suburb"?
Llewellyn Park
Spring
Levittown
Suburbia
What is true about the increase of televisions in American homes? (Check all that are true.)
More Americans were watching television.
Americans played mores types of sports.
Entertainers become stars.
There were a type of peacetime technology.
What was one result of more people using cars?
The need for an interstate highway system.
Gas prices skyrocketed.
The need for more houses to be built.
Rock-n-roll became popular.
Click examples of peacetime technologies.
atomic bombs
transistor radios
televisions
direct-dial telephones
Kennedy beat Vice President Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. Why?
Kennedy was more experienced.
Nixon was involved in a scandal at the time.
Nixon looked better on televsions.
Kennedy looked better on television.
Which Supreme Court decision ruled that separate facilities were equal. (Separate but equal)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Roe v. Wade
Which president integrated the military?
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Which member of the NAACP refused to move to the back of the bus?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida Wells-Barnett
Rosa Parks
Who was the first African-American Supreme Court justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Sandra Day O'Connor
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Jay
After Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson passed which important legislation?
The Affordable Care Act
The Civil Rights Act
Title IX
Americas with Disabilities Act
President Johnson's Great Society plan included the following programs. (Click all that apply.)
Medicare
Medicaid
EPA
Job Corp
Which law opened school athletics to girls and women?
Title X
Title IX
Title XI
Girls rule
What group was formed to protect the rights of American Indians?
Indian Removal Act
Native American Agency
Indian American Movement
American Indian Movement
What were the effects of the Watergate scandal? (Check all that apply).
Nixon was impeached.
Nixon resigned.
Americans lost faith in government.
Americans lost faith in media.
Which president negogiated a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt?
President Nixon
President Carter
President Reagan
President Ford
