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$100 Question from Economy
What is one of the 3 things a G.I. Could do with Money from the G.I. Bill?
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$100 Answer from Economy Start a business Buy a home Go to college
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$200 Question from Economy
What was one of the 2 factors that caused the Economic boom of the 1950s<
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$200 Answer from Economy Low unemployment rates
Plenty of goods being bought and sold
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$300 Question from Economy
What did the Great-Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway do?
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$300 Answer from Economy Connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes
In the Midwest
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$400 Question from economy
What was one of the 3 ways Truman’s Fair Deal Was designed to help those less fortunate?
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$400 Answer from Economy Increased social security benefits
Increased minimum wage Increased low income housing
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$500 Question from Economy
How did the Taft-Hartley Act weaken labor unions?
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$500 Answer from Economy Outlawed closed shop which required business to hire only union workers Allowed right-to-work laws which outlawed requiring workers to join unions
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$100 Question from Living in America
What symbolized the American Dream?
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$100 Answer from Living in America
Buying a house in the suburbs
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$200 Question from Living in America
What was the name of the first mass-produced Suburb in NY?
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$200 Answer from Living in America
Levittown
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$300 Question from Living in America
What is the term for the rise in The birthrate from ?
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$300 Answer from Living in America
Baby Boom
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$400 Question from Living in America
Why were more schools needed in the 1950s?
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$400 Answer from Living in America
The Baby Boom
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$500 Question from Living in America
What is the difference between a white collar workers And a blue collar worker?
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$500 Answer from Living in America
White collar works in office; wears dress shirt Blue collar works in factroy; wears jumpsuit or overalls
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$100 Question from Young America
Form of music that emerges in the 1950s
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$100 Answer from Young America
Rock ‘n’ Roll
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$200 Question from Young America
First significant rock ‘n’ roll star
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$200 Answer from Young America
Elvis Presley
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$300 Question from Young America
When youth culture is separate and different from adult culture
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$300 Answer from young America
Generation gap
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$400 Question from young America
Term for crimes committed by young people
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$400 Answer from young America
Juvenile delinquency
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$500 Question from young America
3 factors that caused juvenile delinquency in Young America?
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$500 Answer from young America
T.V. Poverty Lack of religion
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$100 Question from Poverty
Level of income at which a family is classified As poor
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$100 Answer from Poverty Poverty Line
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$200 Question from Poverty
Tried to eliminate poverty and improve cities
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$200 Answer from Poverty Urban renewal programs
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$300 Question from Poverty
Reason government encouraged residents in Public housing to remain poor
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$300 Answer from Poverty Evicted them if they earned money
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$400 Question from Poverty
Reason Appalachia became poor
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$400 Answer from Poverty Coal mines more mechanized, unemployment rose
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$500 Question from Poverty
4 poorest minority groups in America in 50s & 60s
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$500 Answer from Poverty African Americans Native Americans
Hispanic Americans Appalachian Americans
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$100 Question from Potpourri
Program that brought Mexican immigrants to U.S. as workers
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$100 Answer from potpourri
Bra cero
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$200 Question from potpourri
Purpose of Fair Deal, New Frontier, And Great Society
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$200 Answer from Potpourri
Help poor
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$300 Question from Potpourri
Lee Harvey Oswald
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$300 Answer from Potpourri
Assassinated John F. Kennedy
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$400 Question from Potpourri
Health insurance for the poor and elderly
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$400 Answer from Potpourri
Medicaid and Medicare
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$500 Question from Potpourri
Court case that said defendant had the right to A lawyer
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$500 Answer from Potpourri
Gideon v. Wainwright
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Final Jeopardy This president said, “Unfortunately some
Americans still live on the outskirts of hope, Some because of their poverty and some Because of their color and all to many because Of both.” He continued by declaring an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”
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Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Lyndon Johnson
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