Chapter 27

Question 1

Mass produced home developments, leading to suburbia

Answer 1

Levittown

Question 2

76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964

Answer 2

Baby-boom Generation

Question 3

Guest-worker program for Latin Americans in 40s and 50s, mainly worked on farms in the southwest; targeted during recessions

Answer 3

Bracero Program

Question 4

Termination of Native American treaty rights and protected reservations

Answer 4

Termination policy

Question 5

Commission under Truman to study the state of civil rights in America and recommend action

Answer 5

President’s committee on civil rights

Question 6

1954 Supreme Court decision that declared “separate but equal” doctrine unconstitutional; paved way for end of legal segregation

Answer 6

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 7

1956 statement of southern congressmen opposing brown v. Board of education and defending racial segregation

Answer 7

Southern Manifesto

Question 8

Year-long boycott of Montgomery, Alabama buses by African Americans, highlighting segregation.

Answer 8

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 9

Civil rights organization led by Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 9

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 10

Bus rides highlighting illegal segregation of buses in the south

Answer 10

Freedom rides

Question 11

Youth auxiliary of NAACP; involved in sit-ins and rallies

Answer 11

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Question 12

Soviet satellite that ignited the space race; U.S failures show the U.S is behind

Answer 12

Sputnik

Question 13

What gave new opportunities in the 1950s to parents of the baby-boom generation as more Americans moved to suburbs?

Answer 13

Economic growth

Question 14

Who were left behind in this economic growth, facing increased discrimination through housing policies, guest worker programs, and the termination policy?

Answer 14

The poor, Blacks, Latin Americans, and Native Americans

Question 15

What movement faced intense opposition from Southern Congressperson’s?

Answer 15

African-American Civil rights movement

Question 16

What did Southern Congressmen pass during the civil rights movement?

Answer 16

Issued the “Southern Manifesto” opposed an end to segregation after the Brown v. Board of education decision.

Question 17

What was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee continued to inspire the move toward full civil rights?

Answer 17

Sit-ins, boycotts, and non-violent civil disobedience

Question 18

What was the 1950s remembered as?

Answer 18

Economic growth and the Quintessential American Dream

Question 19

What was a new era symbolized at the end of the 1950s into the 1960s?

Answer 19

The space race and Rock & Roll was taking shape.