Changing American Society

Question 1

What is the fair deal?

Answer 1

Federal government should guarantee social and economic stability.

Question 2

What was Truman’s first priority with the fair deal?

Answer 2

Make the transition to a peacetime economy and getting the troops home with their G.I. Benefits.

Question 3

Name two parts of Truman’s 21 point plan to congress

Answer 3

Protection against unfair unemployment practices, higher minimum wage, greater unemployment compensation, housing assistance, Health insurance, atomic energy legislation

Question 4

What did Truman ban in 1948?

Answer 4

Racial discrimination in the federal government’s hiring practices. Also segregation in the military.

Question 5

What was the official name of the G.I bill and when was it signed?

Answer 5

The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act and in June, 1944

Question 6

What was the purpose of the G.I bill

Answer 6

Offer a college scholarship to those who served in the military, even if they did not see active duty.

Question 7

Other than educational benefits, what other types of benefits were added to the G.I. Bill

Answer 7

Unemployment compensation, low interest home mortgages, and low interest business loans.

Question 8

Famous people who used the G.I bill

Answer 8

George H W Bush, Gerald Ford, Al Gore, Johnny Cash, and Clint Eastwood

Question 9

The war made national defense the priority, what two educational subjects supported this goal?

Answer 9

Science and Technology

Question 10

What does STEM stand for?

Answer 10

Science Technology Engineering Math

Question 11

William Levitt turned a 4,000 acre potato farm into what?

Answer 11

The largest privately owned housing development

Question 12

What did the Bank of America introduce to the middle class?

Answer 12

Credit cards in 1958

Question 13

What did TIME magazine describe the middle class as?

Answer 13

The people who sing the national anthem at football games and mean it

Question 14

Two examples of what the new frontier intended to change

Answer 14

Raising minimum wage, guaranteeing equal pay for women, rebuilding inner cities, increasing funding for education, adding a Peace Corps, established Medicare for the elderly.

Question 15

What issues were going to be tackled under the great society plan?

Answer 15

Combat poverty, Strengthen civil rights policy Improve public education Urban renewal, Stronger natural resource conservation efforts

Question 16

What is suburbanization?

Answer 16

The trend of people from the city to residential areas.

Question 17

Why did Kenneth T. Jackson call cities “walking cities”?

Answer 17

There were no distinct boundaries for commerce, artisan shops, stores, or residences. All existed side by side, often with one building performing several different functions,

Question 18

What advances were key to suburbanization?

Answer 18

Transportation advances

Question 19

What were Levittowns?

Answer 19

Mass produced homes and prepackaged neighborhoods

Question 20

What did it mean to keep up with the Joneses?

Answer 20

It was a competition about who had fancier items… Example who has the biggest tv in the neighborhood

Question 21

Historian Landon Jones said what could be heard almost nine months after the end of WWII

Answer 21

The cry of the baby across the land

Question 22

What years were considered the baby boom?

Answer 22

1946-1964

Question 23

In what three ways were people confident about economic stability?

Answer 23

Corporations grew more profitable, labor unions promised generous wages and benefits to their members, and consumer goods were more plentiful and affordable then ever before

Question 24

What was one of the major effects on rock n roll?

Answer 24

It allowed teenagers to express themselves

Question 25

What band had the most to do with change in fashion in the 50-60’s?

Answer 25

The Beatles

Question 26

How did Janis Joplin change fashion?

Answer 26

She popularized bangs, as well as weaving beads and feathers into her hair. A signature look of hers was multiple large beaded necklaces, which soon caught on with the teenage youth. Her final contribution to fashion was popularizing the tattoo, which until her time hadn’t found acceptance.

Question 27

What was to be the greatest concern that rock n roll had on history?

Answer 27

Integration on society and culture

Question 28

Which show that we talked about was a nuclear family?

Answer 28

Leave it to Beaver