US History Since 1877

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1. Which of the following statements is true about the post–World War II U.S. economy?

American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite Americans.

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2. The term Pax Americana refers to*

American domination of the global economy after World War II.

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3. When Eisenhower said, “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,” he was referring to the

military-industrial complex.

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4. The space race began after

Americans learned that the Soviet Union had launched the first space satellite.

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5. The GI Bill (1944) stimulated the American economy by

subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages.

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6. Which of the following phenomena served as a major engine for consumption in the United States during the 1950s?

The baby boom

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7. The ideal family, as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a father as the breadwinner, was

not representative of diverse American culture.

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8. The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s America was most evident in the dramatic rise in popularity of

Billy Graham.

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9. Which of the following was an impetus for the post–World War II baby boom?

The declining average age of marriage for women and men

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10. Which of the following exemplified the sexual conservatism that characterized the period from 1945 to the mid-1960s?

College women had curfews and needed permission to entertain male visitors.

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11. How did homophile activists challenge the prejudicial attitudes of most Americans toward gay men and lesbians in the 1950s?

They avoided gay bars and nightclubs and dressing modest conservative clothing

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12. Which of the following statements characterizes the innovations in housing construction pioneered by William Levitt after World War II?

His company pioneered the application of mass-production techniques to home construction.

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13. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s?

In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

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14. Which of the following describes the urban renewal projects that took place in U.S. cities in the 1950s?

Urban renewal efforts coincided with an increase in cities' black, Latino, and Native American populations.

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15. Which of the following describes the famous kitchen debate of 1959?

It settled no greater political purpose, but it revealed the commercialism of the postwar American dream.

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16. Which of the following statements describes post–World War II America?

Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world.

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17. Which of the following was the predominant tendency in business during the twenty years following World War II?

The consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms

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18. Michael Harrington’s 1962 book The Other America exposed

poverty in America.

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19. Which of the following describes the economic changes taking place in the United States during the 1950s?

Consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility.

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20. Which of the following was a popular television program of the 1950s that depicted American working-class lives?

The Honeymooners

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21. Record sales boomed in the United States during the 1950s because of

the emergence of rock n roll as a popular new musical genre

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22. The Beat generation of the 1950s rejected

political activism

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23. In the 1950s, evangelist Norman Vincent Peale preached

the therapeutic use of religion.

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24. Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family life in the postwar decades?

Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector.

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25. How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the 1950s?

They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic responsibilities.

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26. The Daughters of Bilitis was a women’s organization founded in 1955 that sought

greater visibility for and acceptance of lesbians in the United States.

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27. The term restrictive covenants refers to

prohibitions on black residents in some communities.

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28. An unexpected result of building the interstate highway system was that it

precipitated the decay of American urban areas.

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29. Which of the following factors spurred congressional approval of the Interstate Highway Act?

the cold war

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30. Immigration policy in the 1950s led to

the legal resumption of Asian immigration.

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31. In the 1950s, most Puerto Rican immigrants settled in

new york city

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32. Beginning in the 1960s, the influx of Cuban refugees rapidly changed the character of

miami

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33. What effect did the Cold War have on the civil rights movement?

It both constrained and led to support for reforms.

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34. Two hundred Sioux, organized by AIM to dramatize their cause, engaged in several gun battles with the FBI for over two months in 1973 at

Wounded Knee.

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35. The practice of racial segregation in the American South in the twentieth century was commonly known

Jim Crow

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36. Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of César Chavez as a national figure during the 1960s?

He and the United Farm Workers union won national attention by organizing a grape pickers' strike in 1965.

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37. What major change occurred in Mexican American activism during the 1960s?

In 1969, a large group of Mexican American students met in Denver to hammer out a national Chicano agenda.

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38. Malcolm X and the Black Muslims pursued a philosophy that differed dramatically from that of

Martin Luther King Jr.

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39. Who was Eugene “Bull” Connor, who made national news in 1963?

Birmingham's commissioner of public safety

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40. Why was the 1963 March on Washington significant in the history of the civil rights movement?

Conflicts between moderate and militant activists signaled an emerging rift in the larger civil rights movement.

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Which of the following statements describes television in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s?

It transformed American culture as much as the automobile had in the 1920s.

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Which of the following statements characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American women during the 1950s?

Cultural messages indicated that domesticity should be women’s highest priority.

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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin are both associated with

the polio vaccine

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Which of the following factors precipitated the urban crisis of the 1950s and 1960s?

The flight of white urban residents to the suburbs

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Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Charlie Parker were all associated with

cultural rebellion.

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Which of the following became a symbol of the postwar housing boom in the United States?

Levittown

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Which of the following characterizes many of the newly built suburban communities in the 1950s?

They were generally homogeneous in their population.

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