US History Test #3

Unit 27 – the 1950s Review Sheet

Terms you will be asked about in matching, multiple choice, and short answer format. You must be able to define, explain, and outline the effects of each of the following:

  • A vast wasteland
  • Automobile
  • Baby boom
  • Beat movement
  • Beat movement and rock ‘n’ roll 
  • Braceros
  • Conglomerate 
  • Consumerism
  • Dixiecrats
  • Dr. Benjamin Spock
  • Dr. Jonas Salk
  • Fair Deal
  • Federal government offered help in obtaining an education, a home, and a job or business
  • Film of the 1950’s
  • Franchise 
  • Main trend in the housing industry 
  • Planned obsolescence 
  • Radio in the 1950’s
  • Rock ‘n’ roll
  • Size of the baby-boom generation 
  • Television in the 1950’s
  • Termination Policy 
  • Typical suburban male 
  • Urban Renewal
  • Vaccine against Polio

Essays you will have to write:

  1. The economy boomed during the 1950s. Please explain, using concrete facts and information, at least one source of this increased activity.
  2. The suburbs boomed during the 1950s. Please explain, using concrete facts and information, at least one result to the central cities of this move and how it still affects them today.