Chapter 16

1. As a result of the GI Bill many returning soldiers

• moved into the nation’s urban centers.

• received low interest loans to buy suburban houses.

• decided to make a career in the military

African Americans who lived in urban centers in the 1950s often

• remained stuck in low-paying jobs.

• had good medical care.

• sent children to suburban schools.

• moved to rural areas in the South.

To benefit from a cheaper labor pool, some businesses in the 1950s began to

• hire African Americans.

• hire teenagers.

• expand overseas.

• franchise.

In his book, 'The Other America', Michael Harrington wrote about

• the beat movement.

• street gangs.

• poverty.

• the generation gap.

For many Americans, suburbs came to symbolize

• the American dream.

• the GI Bill.

• poverty.

• the generation gap.

Many of the early television comedy shows were adapted from popular

• movies.

• radio shows.

• novels.

• stage plays.

The government unwittingly encouraged residents of public housing to remain poor by

• increasing the rent as they earned more money.

• evicting them as soon as they began to earn any money.

• requiring them to pay for maintenance.

• locating the housing too far from available jobs.

The federal government’s termination policy was intended to

• end poverty in the inner city by replacing slums with new high-rise buildings.

• bring Native Americans into mainstream society.

• fight juvenile delinquency.

• end the dependence of poor Americans on government aid.

The GI Bill helped veterans through generous loans. Over the long term, its impact would have been to __________ the postwar economy by ____________.

• bankrupt; demanding huge tax increases

• damage; spreading federal funds too thinly

• stimulate; broadening the base of affluent consumers

• weaken; overlooking the need for national defense spending

In the United States, the 1950s was a decade of incredible

• scarcity.

• overpopulation.

• prosperity.

• turmoil.