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WorksheetsAmerica During the 1950s
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was the GI Bill?
Helped Veterans afford houses
Helped people named Bill buy a house
Discrimination bill against African Americans
Why didn't William Levitt want to sell to African Americans?
Because he thought the values of the home would drop drastically
Because he wasn't allowed to by law
Because they weren't veterans
The first large scale suburb of affordable housing was built in New York. It was called
Hollywood
Anaheim
Levittown
Morristown
The birth of the largest generation of Americans born between 1946 & 1955 was called the
Hippie Generation
Gen X
Millenials
Baby Boom
The main style of music in the 1950's was
jazz
hip-hop
country
rock n roll
Which of the following most accurately describes planned postwar communities like Levittown?
simple, low-cost housing for the working poor in cities
large country homes designed to attract buyers
small suburban homes that middle class families could afford
custom-designed homes built to meet the needs of individual buyers
Examine the cartoon. What aspect of American society in the 1950s was the cartoonist making?
high culture
stay-at-home moms
suburban conformity
planned obsolescence
Singer from Memphis, Tennessee whose music awoke of generation of young people to the sounds of rock n' roll
Elvis Presley
Little Richard
Bill Haley and the Comets
James Dean
After the war, the ___?___ replaced radio and movies as the main entertainment for American families.
television
YouTube
internet
community swimming pool
Suburbia as the "American Dream" represented
conformity.
stability.
happiness.
All of the above
Program that provided a wide range of financial benefits to World War 2 Veterans, many former soldiers bought homes and attended college through the program.
Red Scare
Beatnicks
GI Bill
Suburbs
People who perform professional, managerial, or Administrative type work, these people usually wear suits or business attire.
White Collar Jobs
Blue Collar Jobs
The spread of McDonald's fast food franchises and Holiday Inns during the 1950s contributed most directly to which of these post war trends?
a population shift from small families to large families
a population shift from northern states to southern states
an economic shift from blue-collar jobs to white-collar jobs
an economic shift from producing goods to providing services
Read the statement below.
I avoid traditional jobs. I reject all forms of convention. I study Eastern religions. I groove on modern jazz.
Which type of person in the 1950s would have been most likely to say these things?
a beat writer
a "baby boomer"
an "organization man"
an abstract expressionist painter
Beatnik
an elderly person in the 1920s who suffered financial loss.
the fact or process of converting someone or something back to a former state.
a young person in the 1950s and early 1960s belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
This was a type of music which challenged earlier music and was popular to teenagers.
Which of the following is the best title for the following facts:
Rapid growth of the suburbs
Passage of the interstate highway law
Popularity of drive-in theaters
Boston's Big Dig
Impact of the Automobile
Growth of the Service Industry
Results of Gasoline Shortages
Popular culture and the media encouraged women to identify primarily as
office workers
wives and mothers
career-oriented professionals
equal to men
Which of the following is most accurate statement about what pop culture promoted and reinforced during the 1950s?
women and men both working long workdays each weekday, with the weekend off for leisure
equality for African Americans in education and job opportunities
access to free health care for the record number of babies being born
stay-at-home moms cleaning, cooking, and taking care of children
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the 1950's?
moving to the suburbs
going on vacation in a car
watching TV with the family
protests by women for equal rights
