HIST 202 CH 24

What WERE some prominent features of suburban married life in the Fifties?

-A growing desire among husbands and wives to find fulfillment through the shared enjoyment of things -A rise in birth rates -A decline in divorce rates

What WERE some main characteristics of the 1950's affluent society?

-A redistribution of the nation's population and economic resources to the West and the South -The growth of Suburbia -A vibrant consumer culture

What WERE some features of Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy?

-The civil rights movement should always fight racial injustice on a nonviolent basis -Blacks and whites must work together to combat segregation -The civil rights movement is a crusade not merely to improve the lot of blacks, but, more broadly, to redeem the soul of America

What WERE some significant trends in 1950's America?

-The rise of youth culture that challenged the bland conformism of postwar America -The emergence of TV as the nation's prevalent form of entertainment -The growing association of the automobile with individual freedom

What was NOT a main characteristic of the 1950's affluent society?

A decline in the number of residential homes

The small group of poets and writers who railed against mainstream 1950's culture, and that included Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, was known as the...?

Beats

What was NOT a feature of Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy?

Black Americans must not try for full racial equality too quickly; before they achieve that, they must first prove their worthiness to all America

What was did NOT describe Rosa Parks in the years prior to her December 1, 1955 arrest?

She was a housewife, with no previous experience as a political activist

What marked the "turning point" of the modern civil rights movement that moved it toward its "mass phase"?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

The National Defense Education Act, which for the first time offered direct federal funding for higher education, was passed into law by Congress in 1957 in response to:

The Soviet launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik

Eric Foner writes: "the either-or mentality of the Cold War obscured the extent to which the US itself fell short of the ideal of freedom." In this context, to what does "the either or mentality" refer?

The notion that, in a polarized world, you were either for the US or for the Soviet Union

What was NOT a prominent feature of the suburban married life during the Fifties?

a growing tendency of husbands and wives to share the roles of breadwinner and homemaker

What was NOT a significant trend in 1950's America?

a surge of student radicalism on college campuses

Beginning in the 1950's, _________________ became the nation's leading form of leisure entertainment.

television