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blended a variety of musical styles.

Elvis Presley's recordings:

suggestive gyrations on stage.

Elvis was especially controversial because of his:

New York

In which state was the first Levittown located?

the Beats

Jack Kerouac wrote on what topic?

having babies.

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

the rural South.

Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:

bridge class and racial divisions.

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

the U.S. Army.

Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:

new construction of mass public transportation.

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

Dien Bien Phu.

The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:

funded by gasoline taxes.

The interstate highway system was:

rhythm and blues.

The music Alan Freed labeled "rock and roll" was actually:

white

The nation's suburban population by 1970 was overwhelmingly:

cold war-related military spending.

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

True

The years after World War II witnessed a second Great Migration.

favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz.

The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

tried to cover it up.

When the U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia, Eisenhower first:

belonged to a church.

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

did mental rather than physical labor.

By the mid-1950s, an increasing number of workers:

should make policy, and the president should carry it out.

As president, Eisenhower reverted to the nineteenth-century view that Congress: