Which of the Following Is NOT True of Culture in the 1950s

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true of culture in the 1950s and 1960s?

• A) Social transformations in the postwar world gave families more money and leisure time which would lead to a transformation of culture: a cultural revolution.
• B) The growing numbers of young people had little or no effect on the shaping of mass culture.
• C) After victory in World War II, Western society settled once more into the traditional patterns of the past with men working outside the home and women staying home with children.
• D) The mass culture of the 1950s and 1960s was not confined to music but expanded to include art, initially through abstract expressionism and later in pop art.
• E) The spread of automobile ownership stoked feelings of freedom, mobility, and romance.

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Definitions:

Colonial Governments

Administrative bodies established by colonial powers to oversee and manage colonies, often involving control over local resources, economy, and people.

Indentured Servants

Individuals who agreed to work for a set period without wages in exchange for passage to the New World.

Chesapeake Tobacco Planters

Landowners and farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region who cultivated tobacco as a cash crop during the colonial and early national periods of American history.

Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Refers to the region and period relating to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600s marked by the establishment of English colonial societies based on tobacco farming and indentured servitude.