History II Final Exam Part 1

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

a white suburban housewife

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

belonged to a church

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions

In retrospect, the material successes of the 1950s:

created new problems that would be addressed in the 1960s

Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from:

excessive conformity

The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

give up their jobs to returning veterans

One common way middle-class Americans coped with frequent job-related moving was to:

join lots of clubs

Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

new problems and forms of exploitation

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

prevent the return of the Depression

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

significantly increased

In relation to society's prevailing values in the 1950s, most teens tended to be:

supportive

Between 1945 and 1960 in the United States:

the gross national product almost doubled

The phenomenon of "white flight" in the 1950s:

was a major cause of the growth of the suburbs

By the mid-1950s, most workers:

were white collar

During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

widened