Chapter 26 Review:
1. The post war economy suffered severe _________________________.
2. After WWII, worker productivity improved largely because of ______________________
_______________________________________.
3. Rock-and-roll was first plated by ___________ _____________in 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio.
4. In what way did family patterns change during the 1950s?
______________________________________________________________________________
5. The National Defense Education Act allocated federal funds to train ______________________.
6. During the 1950s, American families benefited from ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
7. During the 1950s there were rebellious teenagers, credit cards, and T.V. dinners. However, there
was no ___________ _________________.
8. Loans to ______________________ contributed to a surge in postwar home construction.
9. The flight of the urban middle class to the suburbs hurt cities ____________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
10. Many people migrated to the sunbelt to work in the ___________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
11. After the war, the united States economy shifted to ____________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
12. On the issue of ______________________________________________________ President
Truman made progress.
13. During the 1948 election the _________________ _____________________ split their party.
14. President Eisenhower maintained many of the ___________ _____________ programs.
15. Between 19401 and 1960, more than 40 million Americans migrate to the _________________.
16. The rise of the car culture led to the spread of ________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
17. The _______________________ ___________________ made the scale of suburban growth
possible.
18. The ______________________ industry grew rapidly during the 1950s.
19. Congress increased federal funding for education largely because of the Soviet Union’s
_______________ program.
20. During the 1950s, American consumers purchased new ____________- _______________
appliances.
21. The television change the way ______________________ ran for office.
22. Dr. Salk invented the ____________ vaccination.
23. Television programs in the 1950s often idealized families centered around the ____________ as
a breadwinner and the _______________ as homemaker.
24. Rock-and –roll music became the symbol of _________________ culture.
25. Many social critics in the 1950s criticized an American emphasis on ______________________,
which is to look, think, and be the same as everyone else during the 1950s.
26. In The Other America, Michael Harrington exposed problems dealing with _________________.
27. After WWII, many American cities began to decline because of the fight of the ______________
_____________ white families.
28. In the 1950s, the federal government encouraged Native Americans to ____________________
into American society.
29. Rural poverty happened because of _____________________ farming.
30. To help with the anxiety of the returning soldiers, the government enacted the __ ___ _______
__ ____________.
31. In the 14th Amendment it was upheld that, “separate but equal” was accepted for education,
however, in the court case of __________ __ __________ ___ _____________ __ ___________.
32. The G.I. Bill contributed to the increase in ______________ ____________earned in the late
1940s.
33. Just over 250,000 people received their bachelor’s or professional degree inn _________’
34. During the postwar period, immigrant groups in America lacked _______________ ___________
because of language barriers and the threat of deportation.
35. According to Harte and Riley, Kerouac’s second novel On the Road was different from his first
because it was more in line with the philosophy of the _______ generation.
36. Kerouac opt to abandon “tedium” in his second book because he believed that it, like
conformity, stifled ________________________.
37. Between 1947 and 1957 ______________________ industry decreased the most.
38. ________________ did NOT lead to economic growth in the 1950s.
39. One benefit of using an appliance is that it eliminated the need for _________________ foods.
40. Betsy Friedan wrote a book called the ________________ ______________ which talked about
the dissatisfaction housewives felt in their role.
41. _____________ ____________ Business that provide services
42. ___________ _________ a work place in which only union members can be hired
43. _______________ ____________ a corporation that sells goods and services all over the world
44. ______________________ a workers output per hour of work
45. _______________________ the habit of buying as much as one can
46. __________________ __________________ an independently owned retail outlet of a larger
company
47. __________________________ to merge
48. __________ __________ the central part of an urban area
49. ____________________________ the act of disbanding
50. _____________ _____________ government programs for redevelopment of urban areas