Matching Pairs 14-3 1950s PovertyOnline version USH.6.2 Discuss key economic and social changes in post-World War II American life, including the Second Red Scare and its effects on American culture. by Lance Hiles 1 This federal policy made Native Americans subject to the same laws as European Americans & withdrew all official recognition of their status. 2 _____ of Minneapolis would take in friends until fifteen people filled a 2-room home 3 Experts blamed 1950s juvenile delinquency on comic books, racism, TV, busy parents, movies, divorce, military draft, lack of religion, & _____ . 4 1950s, Native Americans were the _____ ethnic group in America & made up less than 1% of the population 5 Long-standing patterns of _____ kept African-Americans poor, even though 3 million had migrated from the South to North 6 When the mountainous region of Appalachia _____ its coal mining industry, unemployment soared. 7 The public stereotyped 1950s young people as juvenile delinquents if they had long hair or if they _____ 8 1950s poor includes single mothers, the elderly, minorities, & _____ , both African- & European-Americans. 9 Antisocial or criminal behavior of young people is called _____ , and it rose 45% in the U.S. from 1948 to 1953 10 Slums were torn down and replaced with high-rises, creating crowded projects full of poor residents and often leading to an environment of _____ . 11 Compared to 68 years for other Minneapolis residents, Native Americans in the 1950s could expect to live _____ 12 Lorraine Hansberry wrote _____ & it opened on Broadway, telling the story of an African American family struggling against poverty and racism 13 When _____ launched Sputnik I & Sputnik II, many felt America's education system had fallen behind its Cold War enemy. 14 Cities could no longer provide transportation & housing because they no longer received _____ from former middle-class residents 15 Parents were concerned about juvenile delinquency & turned to ____ as a possible solution 16 The poor and _____ lacked the means to escape the city, so they were left behind when middle-class families moved to the suburbs 17 A rule that _____ residents of public housing when they began earning a higher income accidentally created a condition that supported poverty 18 Schools might have solved 1950s delinquency, but millions of _____ entered the system & districts struggled to pay for buildings and teachers 19 The government sets a figure which is the minimum income required to _____ , also known as the poverty line. 20 1950s, Despite an expansion of the middle class, 1 in 5 Americans lived below this:
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