Chapter 26 Test

A Supreme Court decision which overruled the previous decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, thereby ruling that "separate but equal" racial segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Brown v. Board of Education

Most popular form of entertainment after WWII.

Television

Which of the following enabled the rising purchase of consumer goods?

All of the above {Mass-distribution of credit cards Increased production that lowered prices Use of installment plans}

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

Beats

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination

The churches most common in suburban America attended most frequently celebrated which of the following cultural values?

Economic individualism

Cuban revolutionary and Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 who seized power after Fulgencio Batista's regime fled Cuba to Spain.

Fidel Castro

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

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

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

Milton Friedman

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Whistling at a white women

This person is considered the "Father of modern Suburbia."

William Levitt

This government program introduced measures making it easier to purchase a house.

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)