Exam 24: An Affluent Society, 1953 -1960

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A) for the Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
B) to the Iranian government under Mohammed Mossadegh.
C) for the UN Charter.
D) to any Asian country resisting communism or nationalism.
E) to any Middle Eastern country resisting communism or nationalism.

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A) spoke the language of personal autonomy.
B) emphasized tradition, community, and moral commitment.
C) supported a more centralized federal government.
D) were also known as libertarians.
E) wanted more federal regulation of business.

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A) desegregation of Orange County schools
B) active agent of social change
C) coalition of black minister and activists
D) denounced Brown as an abuse of judicial power
E) Eisenhower's term for his policies
F) defined freedom as a moral condition
G) American pledge to help Middle Eastern countries
H) massive retaliation
I) propelled Martin Luther King Jr. as a national symbol
J) reversed the separate-but-equal doctrine
K) agreement between unions and
L) consumer capitalism

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A) experienced little, if any, discrimination, especially in the North.
B) were encouraged to move into communities like Levittown, New York.
C) were discriminated against only in the South.
D) received special treatment if they were veterans.
E) were often unable to receive either private or public financing for housing.

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A) The Affluent Society
B) Checkers speech
C) chief justice of the Supreme Court
D) founder of McDonald's
E) NAACP lawyer
F) conservative economist
G) The Lonely Crowd
H) Little Rock Central High School
I) Vietnamese leader
J) builder of suburbia
K) Beat writer
L) Catholic presidential candidate

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The role for women has evolved significa...

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A) The Affluent Society
B) Checkers speech
C) chief justice of the Supreme Court
D) founder of McDonald's
E) NAACP lawyer
F) conservative economist
G) The Lonely Crowd
H) Little Rock Central High School
I) Vietnamese leader
J) builder of suburbia
K) Beat writer
L) Catholic presidential candidate

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A) created much division among Americans.
B) were heightened by the growth of the suburbs.
C) were not a factor, as church and synagogue membership declined.
D) were intensified through the institution of school prayer.
E) were absorbed within the notion of a common Judeo-Christian heritage.

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A) effectively spread images of working-class life to a growing number of Americans.
B) tried to replace newspapers as the most common source of information but failed.
C) became the nation's least favorite form of leisure activity.
D) became an effective advertising medium.
E) presented shows that were controversial.

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A) White America had alienated black Americans from mainstream society.
B) Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives.
C) Women were unhappy with the role of wife and mother and longed for acceptance in higher education and other intellectual pursuits.
D) After World War II, Europe was left behind economically and politically with the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as superpowers.
E) Unionism in America was doomed to fail if the union leaders did not embrace the fact that their demands and strikes labeled them as communists.

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The title "The Age of Affluence and Anxi...

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A) America's social values
B) Soviet communism
C) civil rights policies
D) monopolies in American business
E) Eisenhower's foreign policy

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A) set a high income ceiling for eligibility.
B) reinforced the concentration of poverty in nonwhite urban neighborhoods.
C) ended the concentration of poverty in nonwhite urban neighborhoods.
D) allowed growing numbers of blacks to move to the suburbs.
E) paired with urban renewal programs made American cities more diverse and prosperous.

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A) the expansion of core New Deal programs.
B) the dismantling of core New Deal programs.
C) the elimination of Social Security.
D) decreased support for highway construction.
E) decreased funding for education.

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