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1950s: Suburban Growth, Domestic Policies, and Social Movements

Explore the significant events and trends of the 1950s, including the growth of suburbs, domestic policies, the baby boom, television culture, and social movements like the Beatniks and civil rights.

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1950s: Suburban Growth, Domestic Policies, and Social Movements

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  1. 1950s Domestic Policy Review

  2. Discretionary Income - Money that people spend on items they want but do not need

  3. GI Bill - legislation increased the amount of people in college and helped people buy homes

  4. The Fair Deal attempted to continue many New Deal policies New Deal

  5. William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of suburbs by mass-producing houses

  6. The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in the suburbs People criticized the suburban lifestyle for the sameness of the homes, lack of privacy, decline of individuality • Some

  7. Service Sector - Jobs such as insurance agents and financial advisors (not manufacturing a product)

  8. Automobiles were extremely important to the development of suburbs

  9. Reasons people moved to the suburbs • to escape the crime of cities • to be nearer parks and woods • wanting larger lots

  10. To oppose Truman’s support of Civil Rights, some politicians formed the Dixiecrat Party

  11. Taft-Hartley Act- Overturned many rights won by unions during the New Deal New Deal

  12. Baby Boom- Causes of the baby boom • reunions of husbands & wives at the end of WWII • a decreasing marriage age & a strong desire for large families • advances in medicine

  13. Affect of the Baby Boom • helped the economy

  14. Television was criticized in the 1950s for being too violent.

  15. Encouraged- Women staying at home and raising kids Families having meetings so children could express themselves Government paying mothers to stay home Discouraged Parents spanking children Dr. Benjamin Spock

  16. American society in the 1950s expected women to manage the household

  17. Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson for the presidency in 1952

  18. President Dwight Eisenhower initiated the Interstate Highway System in 1956

  19. One lasting-effect of the major highway-building projects of the 1950s was less reliance on public transportation

  20. Richard Nixon made the Checkers Speech to make Americans realize that he was not involved a scandal in 1952. Checkers!

  21. In the 1950s, most Americans were for conformity

  22. Warminster and Southampton are examples of suburban areas that developed in the 1950s and 1960s.

  23. The group in the 1950s that opposed the conformity of American society was the Beatniks

  24. Ethel & Julius Rosenberg - the first espionage case in U.S. history where the guilty were executed

  25. When writing about “The Other America” Harrington was talking about the parts of American society that did not enjoy prosperity in the 1950s

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