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Which act provided low-cost home loans and free college tuition to World War II veterans? | the G.I. bill |
What term is used to describe the large generation of Americans born in the decade after World War II? | Baby boomers |
The Levittown approach of mass produced housing and the construction of interstate highways in the '50s caused Americans to move to what locations? | suburbs |
What international organization was established after World War II to maintain world peace? | United Nations |
What strategy did Martin Luther King Jr. use? | non-violence; civil disobedience |
What was the goal of President Truman's "Fair Deal"? | progressive reforms---national healthcare, federal support for education, civil rights |
What technology had the greatest impact on American social life during the 1950s? | television and automobiles |
What action was led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to protest segregated busing? | Montgomery bus boycott |
What ended segregation in public schools? | Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
Which group's action resulted in the Eisenhower administration's use of troops to integrate the public schools? | the Little Rock Nine |
How did the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) protest segregation in restaurants and lunch-counters? | sit-ins |
What was the goal of the "Freedom Riders"? | end segregation in interstate busing |
The "March on Washington" was an event to support which cause? | civil rights for African-Americans |