Quiz 18

He became known as the King of Rock n Roll

Elvis Presley

Innovative housing project for veterans developed on suburban Long Island, New York, which boomed to more than 17,000 homes between 1947 and 1951:

Levittown.

Jonas Salk would come up with a vaccine to defeat what disease?

Polio

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

cold war-related military spending.

The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

favored road trips, drugs, Buddhism, and jazz.

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

new construction of mass public transportation

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

purchase

The Eisenhower administration used "New Deal-style" government spending in modernizing

the national highway system

Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South.

Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as:

white, polite, and happy.