Multiple Choice Questions

One of the benefits of the new suburban lifestyle of the 1950s was that
  • suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
  • a pent-up demand for consumer goods
  • the advertising industry.
  • the mass production of televisions
How did "car culture" in the United States affect the new migration of the 1950s?
  • The new highway system, which resulted from the car culture, made it easier for people to migrate from the North and East to the South and West.
  • Only wealthy people could afford cars, so the people involved in the new migration tended to be wealthy with a lot of disposable income.
  • As car ownership increased, more people stayed put and only traveled to distant places during vacations, which brought the new migration to an end.
  • Cars helped urban centers and their downtown areas prosper, which made people want to migrate to Eastern cities during the 1950s.
Owning a car during the 1950s in the United States was mostly
  • a pent-up demand for consumer goods
  • the advertising industry.
  • suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
  • a sign of status and success.
Conformity and the consumer culture of the 1950s were both supported by
  • the advertising industry.
  • a sign of status and success.
  • suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
  • the mass production of televisions
Which of the following gave the American economy a major boost in the years after World War II?
  • suburban homes had yards and crime was low.
  • the mass production of televisions
  • a sign of status and success.
  • a pent-up demand for consumer goods
Who applied assembly-line techniques to home construction in the 1950s?
  • family road vacations.
  • William Levitt
  • the GI Bill
  • The new highway system, which resulted from the car culture, made it easier for people to migrate from the North and East to the South and West.
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