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Postwar Changes: Suburbs, Highways, and Education

Explore the societal, economic, and educational transformations in postwar America, including the growth of suburbs, the impact of the Interstate Highway System, changes in American businesses, and the evolution of education. Learn about the causes and effects of the Sunbelt migration and discover how Americans benefited from the "car culture."

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Postwar Changes: Suburbs, Highways, and Education

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  1. Chapter 17 Section 2 Society on the Move

  2. Interstate Highway Act • 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

  3. Sunbelt • Name given to the region of states in the south and the southwest

  4. Service Sector • Businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods • Such as healthcare, law, retail, banking, or insurance

  5. Information Industry • Businesses that provide informational services • Computers • ENIAC, first computer, took up 18,000 square feet, or the size of three basketball court

  6. Franchise Business • Allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators • Holiday Inn’s founded by Kemmons Wilson

  7. Multinational Corporation • Companies that produce and sell their goods all over the world • General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and Coca Cola

  8. AFL-CIO • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united in 1955 • First president, George Meany

  9. California Master Plan • Called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state’s citizens

  10. Post War Changes in U.S. • Society • Economy • Education

  11. Society • Growth of Suburbs • Build affordable houses in a hurry • Highways linked suburbs to cities

  12. Society • Increase in automobile ownership • Ownership jumped from 26 million in 1945 to 60 million in 1960

  13. Society • Interstate highways • Eisenhower funded for first major highways • Around 41,000 miles built

  14. Society • Family travel to national and state parks

  15. Society • Migration to the Sunbelt

  16. Society • Shifts in political representation • When people moved the political power went with them • The suburbs and sunbelt gained representation

  17. Economy • Service Economy

  18. Economy • Fewer people in manufacturing and farming

  19. Economy • Multinational corporations

  20. Economy • Franchise Businesses

  21. Economy • AFL-CIO

  22. Education • More people attended college

  23. Education • Federal people attended college

  24. Education • States boosted funding for public universities

  25. Education • California Master Plan

  26. Causes and Effects of Moving to the Sunbelt • Causes • Jobs in new industries • Better Climate • Housing Shortage • Effects • Population growth and the development of air conditioning • Population growth and the development in political power • Growth of suburbs

  27. Classwork • How did Americans living in the suburbs benefit from the “car culture”? • How did the Interstate Highway System spur the growth of the suburbs • In what ways did American businesses change during the postwar period? • How did American education change in the years following World War II?

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