1. UNITED STATES HISTORY REVIEW Short Answer

2. Short Answer Questions None for this test. Sorry for the let down.

3. UNITED STATES HISTORY REVIEW Section 1

4. ______ a known ship builder and William Levitt used assembly line methods in making houses. Henry Kaiser Who ran for president for the liberal Progressive Party in 1948? Henry Wallace Who ran for president for the pro-segregation Dixiecrats in 1948? Strom Thurman Who was the first female cabinet member? (Department of Health, Education and Welfare) Oveta Culp Hobby Who was accused of getting profits form secret slush fund, he gave a speech “Checkers Speech” which allowed him to be Ike’s vice president? Richard Nixon

5. Who ran for president for the Democrats in 1952 and 1956 and his nickname was “egg head?” Adlai Stevenson Who ran for president for the Republicans in 1948? Thomas Dewey Who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, it set up a boycott of the Montgomery bus system? Rosa Parks What guaranteed loans and year’s worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting? GI Bill of Rights

6. Many middle and upper class Americans moved to the _______. Suburbs What act overturned many rights won by unions during the New Deal, it passed despite Truman’s veto? Taft-Hartley Act What was the extension of the New Deal, it asked for compulsory health insurance and crop-subsidy program along with other programs he sought after during the first term? Square Deal

7. What European aid program helped strengthen American markets? Marshal Plan Who or what asked for federal anti-lynching law, ban on the poll tax as a voting requirement and a permanent civil rights commission? Commission on Civil Rights What is Eisenhower’s belief that he is “conservative when it comes to money but liberal when it comes to people?” Modern Republicanism

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9. What are major corporations that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries? (General Electric) Conglomerates What describes the high birthrate…one child born every seven seconds? Baby Boom What is it when you design a product to become obsolete or to wear out or become outdated? planned obsolescence Who developed a vaccine for polio? Jonas Salk

10. What offer similar products or service in many locations? (McDonald’s) Franchises What authorized the building of a nationwide highway network? Interstate Highway Act Diner’s Club and American Express are a type of what? Credit Cards Who wrote Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care? Benjamin Spock Who wrote The Feminine Mystique that put the notion aside the women were content as housewives? Betty Freidan

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12. What do companies do to communicate to large audiences? mass media What is the government Agency that regulates licenses television, telephone, telegraph and other communication? Federal Communication Commission What projected a wide-angle image on a broad screen? CinemaScope

13. What allowed the transmitting of television waves over long distances? Microwave Relays What television show was banned because to the efforts of the NAACP? Amos and Andrew What expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets and writers? beatmovement

14. Who coined the phrase rock’n’roll? Alan Freed Whose television show helped take rock’n’roll to the average American household? Ed Sullivan Who was the king of rock’n’roll? Elvis Presley Who was a famous African-American musician? (Unforgetable) Nat “King” Cole

15. Who starred in the I Love Lucy show? Lucille Ball Who was given answers in the popular game show Twenty-One? Charles Van Doren

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17. What was to provide “a decent home and suitable living environment for every American Family?” Urban Renewal What was the name given Mexicans that crossed the border that worked in mines and hired hands during WWI and WWII? Braceros What eliminated federal economic support, discontinue the reservation system and distribute land among individual Native Americans? Termination Policy Who published The Other America: Poverty in the United States? Michael Harrington

18. What was to aid in improving inner city condition? Housing and Urban Development What group wanted to ensure Native American civil rights and retain their customs? National Congress of American Indians Random Trivia