Chapter 26 Mastery Exercise

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

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of the answers are correct.

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.

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

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

Economic individualism

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

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

Liberal Democrats

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

Milton Friedman

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

Neither of these

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

Whowerethe"BrassHats?"

The leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers who created advertising campaigns supporting free enterprise

What groups experienced the increased fertility rates associated with the baby boom?

wealthy Americans from all racial backgrounds