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Transcribed Image Text:Which of these is an effect of rock and roll had on society in the United States in the 1950s? It contributed to a cultural divide between generations. It reminded people of the days before World War II. It promoted values learned during times of economic hardship. It increased the fear of communist expansion.
Transcribed Image Text:The Dallas Morning News Soviets Launch Sputnik First Satellite In Space The United States government responded to the event described in this headline by- constructing an anti-missile defense system reducing its spending military weapons providing new funds to improve the nation's educational system proposing a joint space station with the Soviet Union
Another visual mark of change has been in clothing styles. As radical groups have all
but disappeared from most colleges and high schools . . . the street-fighting uniforms, the
Army surplus look, the blue jeans and work shirts, and the costumes of the "freaks," the
tie-dyed, thrift shop and frontier scout styles, have become rarer and rarer.
With some exceptions, . . . students are dressing up
more—not high-style, but neater,
cleaner and brighter.
—
Douglas E. Kneeland, New York Times
This excerpt describes changes in student fashion toward the end of —
The opponents of . . . recall, however they may phrase their opposition, in reality
believe the people can not be trusted. On the other hand, those of us who espouse these
measures do so because of our deep-rooted belief in popular government, and not only in
the right of the
people to govern, but in their ability to govern; and this leads us logically
to the belief that if the people have the right, the ability, and the intelligence to elect, they
have as well the right, ability, and intelligence to reject or to recall. . . .
— California governor Hiram Johnson, inaugural address, 1911
The reform discussed by Governor Johnson in this excerpt —
Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully . . . utter,
print, write, or publish any
disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United
States . . . shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more
than twenty years, or both. . . .
—Espionage Act, May 1918
This law demonstrates that at one time the federal government was willing to —
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