HIST 110A Final EXAM LATEST 2024/2025 VERIFIED
EXAM ACCURATE FALL-SPRING TERM 100% CSUF
A leading voice of the Beats was - ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg.
All of the following were instrumental in suburban life and the rise of the
subdivisions except - ANSWER: the loss of a communal city center.
Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever
were affiliated with religious institutions. - ANSWER: False
Although it was a nationwide phenomenon, 1950s suburbanization gathered its
greatest momentum in the West. - ANSWER: True
As families escaped their everyday lives for the "open road," this businessman
franchised his business into approximately 700 McDonald's fast-food stands built by
1964. - ANSWER: Ray Kroc
As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of suburban whites lived in communities with
non-white populations of less than - ANSWER: 1 percent.
As part of the expansive and dynamic growth of the American economy, in the
twenty years after 1950, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs,
nearly 3 million blacks moved from South to North, and half a million Puerto Ricans
moved to the mainland. - ANSWER: True
As president, Eisenhower sought to roll back the New Deal, abolish Social Security
and unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs. -
ANSWER: False
By the end of the 1950s, almost 90 percent of American families owned television
sets, average daily television viewing time was five hours, and television had proven
itself the most effective advertising medium ever invented. - ANSWER: True
By the mid-1960s, 25 million Americans owned shares of stock. - ANSWER: True
Causes of the civil rights revolution included all of the following except - ANSWER: a.
the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.
Cultural dissent was more conspicuous than political dissent during the 1950s. -
ANSWER: True
During the 1950s, gay men and lesbians increasingly created their own subcultures in
major cities. - ANSWER: True
, During the 1950s, material consumption came more and more to eclipse economic
independence and democratic engagement as the hallmarks of American freedom. -
ANSWER: True
During the 1950s, prominent psychologists insisted that women who were unhappy
as housewives suffered from a failure to accept the "maternal instinct." - ANSWER:
True
During the 1950s, the farm population rose from 15 million to 23 million, while
agricultural production declined by 25 percent. - ANSWER: False
During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among
- ANSWER: the southern black church.
Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal. -
ANSWER: False
For all of America's successes, by 1960 more than one in five Americans lived in
poverty. - ANSWER: True
Government policies and expenditures played a crucial role in the postwar economic
boom. - ANSWER: True
In 1956, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered
blue-collar factory and manual laborers. - ANSWER: True
In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine - ANSWER: pledged the United States to defend
Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism or Arab nationalism.
In 1960, women earned, on average, 60 percent of the income of men. - ANSWER:
True
In many ways, the economy and culture of the 1950s were dominated by the
automobile. - ANSWER: True
In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's
image - ANSWER: from defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for
whom heavy taxation had become a burden.
In the 1950s, the National Security Council advised President Eisenhower not to use
nuclear weapons in Vietnam. - ANSWER: False
In the 1950s, the number of houses in the United States doubled; most were built in
the suburbs. - ANSWER: True
EXAM ACCURATE FALL-SPRING TERM 100% CSUF
A leading voice of the Beats was - ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg.
All of the following were instrumental in suburban life and the rise of the
subdivisions except - ANSWER: the loss of a communal city center.
Although Americans in the 1950s grew more intensely religious, fewer than ever
were affiliated with religious institutions. - ANSWER: False
Although it was a nationwide phenomenon, 1950s suburbanization gathered its
greatest momentum in the West. - ANSWER: True
As families escaped their everyday lives for the "open road," this businessman
franchised his business into approximately 700 McDonald's fast-food stands built by
1964. - ANSWER: Ray Kroc
As late as the 1990s, nearly 90 percent of suburban whites lived in communities with
non-white populations of less than - ANSWER: 1 percent.
As part of the expansive and dynamic growth of the American economy, in the
twenty years after 1950, about 7 million white Americans left cities for the suburbs,
nearly 3 million blacks moved from South to North, and half a million Puerto Ricans
moved to the mainland. - ANSWER: True
As president, Eisenhower sought to roll back the New Deal, abolish Social Security
and unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs. -
ANSWER: False
By the end of the 1950s, almost 90 percent of American families owned television
sets, average daily television viewing time was five hours, and television had proven
itself the most effective advertising medium ever invented. - ANSWER: True
By the mid-1960s, 25 million Americans owned shares of stock. - ANSWER: True
Causes of the civil rights revolution included all of the following except - ANSWER: a.
the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947.
Cultural dissent was more conspicuous than political dissent during the 1950s. -
ANSWER: True
During the 1950s, gay men and lesbians increasingly created their own subcultures in
major cities. - ANSWER: True
, During the 1950s, material consumption came more and more to eclipse economic
independence and democratic engagement as the hallmarks of American freedom. -
ANSWER: True
During the 1950s, prominent psychologists insisted that women who were unhappy
as housewives suffered from a failure to accept the "maternal instinct." - ANSWER:
True
During the 1950s, the farm population rose from 15 million to 23 million, while
agricultural production declined by 25 percent. - ANSWER: False
During the 1950s, the mass movement for civil rights found principal support among
- ANSWER: the southern black church.
Dwight Eisenhower entered the presidency determined to dismantle the New Deal. -
ANSWER: False
For all of America's successes, by 1960 more than one in five Americans lived in
poverty. - ANSWER: True
Government policies and expenditures played a crucial role in the postwar economic
boom. - ANSWER: True
In 1956, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered
blue-collar factory and manual laborers. - ANSWER: True
In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine - ANSWER: pledged the United States to defend
Middle Eastern governments threatened by communism or Arab nationalism.
In 1960, women earned, on average, 60 percent of the income of men. - ANSWER:
True
In many ways, the economy and culture of the 1950s were dominated by the
automobile. - ANSWER: True
In the 1950s, Richard Nixon pioneered efforts to transform the Republican Party's
image - ANSWER: from defender of business to champion of the "forgotten man," for
whom heavy taxation had become a burden.
In the 1950s, the National Security Council advised President Eisenhower not to use
nuclear weapons in Vietnam. - ANSWER: False
In the 1950s, the number of houses in the United States doubled; most were built in
the suburbs. - ANSWER: True
