SS Chapter 9 test

1. After World War II, the G.I. Bill provided veterans with

• jobs and car loans
• apartments and teaching jobs
• educational benefits and home loans
• free college tuition for their children and retirement payments

2. _______ provided farmers with a way to get their produce to the people in the cities.

• interstate highways
• state highways
• scenic highways
• farm to market roads

3. ____ and ___ made farming more efficient after World War II.

• mechanical tractors, fertilizers
• mechanical cotton pickers, chemical poisons
• computer-operated cotton gins, mechanical tractors
• combines, computers

4. During the economic boom of the 1950s, people were able to buy consumer goods such as ____ and ___ that had been considered luxuries.

• computers, televisions
• refrigerators, washing machines
• telephones, radios
• microwave ovens, freezers

5. In the Brown vs. Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court ruled that separate schools____

• could not be equal
• did not violate federal law
• were permitted under the laws of Alabama
• could continue as longs as they were equal

6. Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress whos actions started the ___

• NAACP
• Selma-Montgomery march
• Montgomery bus boycott
• boycott of Birmingham's businesses

7. For his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the ____

• Alabama Citizenship Medal
• Pulitzer Prize
• Nobel Peace Prize
• Legion of Merit

8. The ___ made it illegal to deny people access to public facilities based on race.

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
• Montgomery Public Facilities Act

9. Protesters in Selma held demonstrations demanding ___

• the right to attend desegregated schools
• the right to ride public buses
• the right to equal pay
• the right to vote

10. When Congress passes the ______ many of the restrictions that had been placed on blacks at the polls were erased.

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• Voter Registration Act
• National Poll Act