HIST 102: Chapter 24 Reading Guide

Give Me Liberty! An American History Vol 2 Brief Edition

Instructions

This reading guide is designed to help you understand and answer the Focus Questions found on Page 742. This assessment also verifies your active reading of Chapter 24. For each question below, please follow these steps:

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Focus Question 1

On Page 743, (Under the "THE GOLDEN AGE" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The end of World"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Explain the meaning of the "American standard of living" during the 1950s.

Focus Question 2

On Page 745, (Under the "A Suburban Nation" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The automobile shaped"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Describe how the automobile and new highway construction transformed American life in the 1950s.

Focus Question 3

On Page 748, (Under the "Women at Work and at Home" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "Despite the increasing"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Identify the prescribed roles and aspirations for women during the 1950s.

Focus Question 4

On Page 742, (Under the "THE GOLDEN AGE" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "A showcase of"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What are some ways in which mass consumption was promoted as a patriotic act?

Focus Question 5

On Page 749, (Under the "A Segmented and Segregated Landscape" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "But suburbia's racial"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did governmental policies, business practices, and individual choices contribute to racially segregated suburbs?

Focus Question 6

On Page 752, (Under the "The Conservative Upsurge" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "To the libertarian"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

Explain the ideological rifts among conservatives in the 1950s. Why did many view President Eisenhower as "not one of them"?

Focus Question 7

On Page 754, (Under the "The Social Contract" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The 1950s also"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What was the new "social contract" between labor and management, and how did it benefit both sides as well as the nation as a whole?

Focus Question 8

On Page 757, (Under the "The Cold War and the Third World" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The crumbling of"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did the United States and Soviet Union shift the focus of the Cold War to the Third World?

Focus Question 9

On Page 761, (Under the "Origins of the Movement" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The United States"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What were the most significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil rights movement in the 1950s?

Focus Question 10

On Page 766, (Under the "Massive Resistance" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "This campaign of"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How did many southern whites, led by their elected officials, resist desegregation and civil rights in the name of "freedom"?

Focus Question 11

On Page 763, (Under the "The Legal Assault on Segregation" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "It urged the"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

How and why did the federal government's concern with U.S. relations overseas shape its involvement with the Brown v. Board of Education case?

Focus Question 12

On Page 769, (Under the "Kennedy and Nixon" section), find the sentence beginning with the words: "The presidential campaign"

Type the entire sentence verbatim here to identify the evidence:

What was the significance of the presidential election of 1960?