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
