The Century America'S Time Happy Days Worksheet Answer Key

Question: After putting an end to the Korean War, what did Dwight Eisenhower make his priority?

Answer: American domestic life

Question: America in the 1950’s was very rapidly becoming consumer society. People were [BLANK] more and [BLANK] more than ever before.

Answer: buying and selling more

Question: When corporations advertised for secretaries, they specified that women had to be what?

Answer: good looking

Question: In the 1950’s, the woman’s place was where?

Answer: in the home

Question: By 1957, what percent of all marriageable men and women were married?

Answer: 97%

Question: By the end of the decade, a quarter of the population lived in the tract homes of the modern [BLANK]

Answer: suburbs

Question: According to Donald Walde, the emotional core of the early 1950s was all about what?

Answer: stability

Question: Propelled by the powerful economy, how many people were stepping into the middle class?

Answer: 1 million

Question: What was the new appliance that every American had to have next?

Answer: a television

Question: Most early television programs aired live with all the flaws of a what?

Answer: live performance