chapter 26

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?

Beats

What is the name of the University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics?

Milton Friedman

What was the relationship between the federal government and economic growth in the aftermath of World War II?

Federal spending created more economic growth

Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

All the following are causes of the "Baby Boom" EXCEPT

New medical technologies that helped parents with fertility issues become pregnant

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

Separate but equal is "inherently unequal."

All of the following were techniques that allowed federal housing programs to discriminate against Americans of color EXCEPT

The federal program included Jim Crow legislation that refused to give loans to people of color