Give Me Liberty! Ch 24

In 1955, what percentage of nonagricultural workers was unionized?

35 percent

A leading voice of the Beats was

Allen Ginsberg.

The name for the small group of poets and writers, including Allen Ginsberg, who railed against mainstream culture, was

Beats.

Which of the following was NOT a philosophic feature of Martin Luther King Jr.?

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 the landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on May 17, 1954, in which the Warren Court unanimously asserted that segregation in public education violated the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment?

Brown v. Board of Education

Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever were affiliated with religious institutions.

False

Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal.

False

The principal organization in the Southwest—the equivalent of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—that challenged restrictions on housing and employment, as well as the segregation of Latino students, was the

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

What did President Eisenhower call his domestic agenda, which embraced a "mixed economy," in which the government played a major role in planning economic activity, and by which Eisenhower consolidated and legitimized the New Deal?

Modern Republicanism

In the aftermath of Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white rider, a yearlong bus boycott took place in what city?

Montgomery, Alabama

What was the coalition of black ministers and civil rights activists that pressed for desegregation and was formed in 1955, and in whose organizing Martin Luther King Jr. took the lead?

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Which of the following was NOT a key premise of American foreign policy during the Eisenhower years?

The United States will always respect the sovereignty of foreign democracies—even those whose policies we oppose.

Although it was a nationwide phenomenon, 1950s suburbanization gathered its greatest momentum in the West.

True

Cultural dissent was more conspicuous than political dissent during the 1950s.

True

Richard Nixon's rise in politics was fueled in part by his ability to make free-market conservatism appealing to ordinary people.

True

The Brown decision encouraged an awakening of civil rights protest—and segregationist protest—in the South.

True

The suburban explosion of the 1950s did much to diminish racial divisions in America.

True

Which was NOT part of the new "social contract" between organized labor and management in leading industries during the 1950s?

Unions sponsored "wildcat" strikes in an effort to discipline management.

Which of the following was NOT a significant trend in 1950s America?

a surge of student radicalism on college campuses

In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's image from

defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for whom heavy taxation had become a burden.

Which was NOT one of the elements of the "power elite"—the interlocking directorate that dominated government and society in the 1950s—in the view of the sociologist C. Wright Mills?

labor leaders

Which of the following was NOT a key cause of the economic prosperity of the 1950s?

large income tax reductions

With the wave of decolonization that began in 1947 with the independence of India and creation of Pakistan, and by which, in the decades following World War II, Europe's centuries-old empires collapsed, the newly created Third World nations

resisted alignment with either major power bloc.

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

the Soviet launch of the first artificial earth satellite, Sputnik.

During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among

the southern black church.