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What about the Golden age of capitalism between 1946 and 1960 was most beneficial for Americans |
Most monetary gains reached ordinary citizens through rising wages |
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The shopping mall was an inevitable result of what institution |
The suburb |
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What made the army McCarthy hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950s |
It was deeply political and controversial |
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Why where American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated |
Residents brokers and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages the barred the sale to nonwhite residence |
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How did American companies contribute to the influx of puerto rican Migrants by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the 1950s |
Increasing control of land by US sugar companies on the island push small tobacco and coffee farmers off the island and into a search for jobs on the mainland |
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What gave conservatives of the 1950s or political unity |
The common enemies of the Soviet Union and the federal government |
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How did President Dwight D Eisenhower surprise the new deal in government involvement in the economy |
He presided over the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways |
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Why did Eisenhower administration embrace the doctor and of massive retaliation |
The constant threat of mutually assured destruction under the doctrine made for more cautious diplomacy |
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Why did the Soviet union strongly support the national independence movements in the new Third World |
They hoped to convince the new nations to ally themselves with the eastern bloc against european and american imperialists |
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Why did the editors of life magazine fear the American freedom might be in danger from not being used enough |
Americans seemed to have largely withdrawn from open dissent in the public sphere |
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What made elvis such a popular celebrity |
He brought rhythms and sexual provocative movements of black musicians to white audiences |
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Which of the following assessment of the civil rights movement is most accurate |
The movement came as a great surprise it was predicted by only a few |
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Most likely why did the US Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown versus Board of Education in 1954 |
Some justices on the court fear the outbreak of widespread violence was such a bold ruling |
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What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi |
The idea of peaceful civil disobedience |
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What event did President JFK blame on the failures of Eisenhower administration |
The launch of the Soviets Satalite sputnik |
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Which statement about industry is faulse |
The West did not benefit from the industries that spring up from the cold war |
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During the 1950s agriculture production |
Rose by 50% |
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The housing act of 1949 |
Reinforce the concentration of poverty in nonwhite urban neighborhoods |
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During the Cold War religious differences |
Were absorbed with the notion of a common Judeo Christian heritage |
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Call the following spured the growth of suburban middle class except |
Trains and streetcars |
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Modern republicanism included |
Did expansion of core new deal programs |
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Labor and employers agreed to a new social contract that included all the following provisions except |
Employers require the national Association of Manufacturers to except the right of workers to organize unions |
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Which statement best describes the thesis of David Riesman’s book the lonely crowd |
Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives |
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The Southern manifesto |
Repudiated the Supreme Court decision and brown versus board of education |
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In his 1961 farewell address President Eisenhower warned Americans about |
The military-industrial complex |
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