Chapter 26 Mastery Exercise

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of the answers are correct.

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

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

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

All of the answers are correct.

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

All of the answers are correct.

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

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

Federal spending created more economic growth

Congressional opposition from which faction plagued Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration?

Liberal Democrats

Which of the following right wing think tanks were created in the first decade following WWII

Neither of these

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

Economic individualism

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

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience