Exam 27: America at Midcentury

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. William Levitt

Which of these statements about literature in the 1950s is correct?

Which book described the United States' economy during the postwar era?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. "I Love Lucy"

In the years immediately after World War II, what did most American civil-rights leaders do?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Dr. Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care

Discuss how trends in mass culture developed in the 1950s, focusing especially on the rise of suburbia, television, and consumerism. Why were so many people attracted to mass culture? Was it a positive or negative development for American society? Why?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Michael Harrington

Which group benefited the most from the population shift to the Sunbelt?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. AFL-CIO

Which of the following was a leading religious popularizer in the 1950s?

What is the importance of the Mark I and ENIAC?

Which of the following is not evidence of a renewed interest in religion in the 1950s?

Whose music revolutionized the music industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ray Kroc, McDonald's

What role did women play in the work force and in the family during the 1950s? Did popular culture (television, movies) reflect the reality of women's lives? How did educational institutions reinforce sex roles in the 1950s?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Suburbs

What actions by minorities and youth foretold the movements for social change to come in the 1960s?

Which was a cause of the baby boom after World War II?