US HIST EXAM 2 CHAPTER 25

Recorded in 1955, the first rock-and-roll song was

"Rock around the Clock."

According to Jack Kerouac, his famous work, "On The Road," was about:

2 Catholic boys and their search for God.

The Taft-Hartley Act could best be described as

A serious blow to the labor movement.

The writings of Jack Kerouac

Advocated against conformity and consumerism.

In the Movie clip from the Honeymooners, the wife bragged to her husband that she had a[n]

Atomic kitchen.

Members of the bohemian communities of novelists, poets, and artists of the 1950s were known as ______________________________________ .

Beatniks.

In the movie clip from Father Knows Best, the father was trying to teach his children

Civic Responsibility.

The purpose of Richard M. Nixon's so-called "Checkers speech" was primarily to

Diffuse a political scandal.

Music and poetry in the 1950s demonstrated mostly contentment and very little discord.

False.

Rosa Parks had little affiliation with the Civil Rights Movement prior to the bus boycott.

False.

The majority of Americans contested the ideals put forth by television shows such as Father Knows Best in the 1950s.

False.

How did former Vice President Henry Wallace differ from the Truman administration?

He stressed that U.S. foreign policy was too aggressive.

Which of the following best describes why Emmitt Till died in Money, Mississippi?

He was unfamiliar with Southern culture.

William Levitt borrowed from the ideas of ______________________________________ when he built his homes with standardized parts and construction processes.

Henry Ford.

One Ginsberg's famous works is titled:

Howl.

The first few years after World War II

Labor unions enjoyed unprecedented strength.

The 1944 GI Bill of Rights offered returning veterans

Low-interest home loans.

The constitutionality of segregated public schools was successfully challenged by the

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

One of the major differences between the sit-coms of the 1950s and those of today is that 1950s sit-coms:

Often taught and reinforced traditional moral values.

What were Levittowns?

Planned suburban communities.

What earlier ruling was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?

Plessy v. Ferguson.

When ordered to give her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus, Rose Parks chose to

Remain seated and risk arrest.

In the 1948 presidential election, which party was made up of conservative Southern Democrats?

The States Rights Party.

Those who moved to suburbs after World War II increasingly depended on

Their cars.

All of the following except 1 represents a similarity between Kerouac and Ginsberg. Choose the one that is different.

They were both anti-communist.

President Truman lost the support of Southern Democrats because of his views on civil rights.

True.

When the Arkansas governor resisted the Supreme Court-mandated integration of public schools, President Eisenhower

sent federal troops to Little Rock to protect the Little Rock Nine.

In 1960, a spontaneous decision by four black college students in Greensboro, South Carolina initiated a national movement involving

sit-in demonstrations.