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This bill paid part of their tuition, guaranteed them a years worth of unemployment benefits while job hunting, offered low interest federally guaranteed loans and young families use these benefits to buy houses and Farms or established businesses

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G.I. Bill of Rights

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When the Veterans returned home they faced a severe what?

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Housing shortage

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These developers use efficient, assembly line message to mass-produce houses

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William Levitt and Henry Kaiser

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Homes in small residential communities surrounding cities that cost at most $7000

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Suburb

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Rows of standardize homes but on tree was slots. The homes looked exactly like and certain zoning laws ensure that they would stay the same

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Levitown

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Where was the first Levitown created

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New York City Long Island

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Tension created by changes in men’s and women’s roles after work contributed to a rising rate of what?

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Divorce

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The US converted from a wartime economy to a what economy?

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Peace time

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What were some of the postwar economic problems

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Rising unemployment and inflation

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The cost of consumer products soared how much percent

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25%

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After the postwar depression what kind of things Rose?

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Home ownership, automobile registrations, family income, and savings accounts

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Who called this the affluent society

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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This provided another boost to the American economy

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Marshall plan

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Who became president after Franklin D Roosevelt’s death

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Harry S Truman

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Two huge challenges of Truman;

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Rising threat of communism and restoring the American economy to a strong footing

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What kind of people went on strike

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Steel workers, coal miners, railroad workers

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The 80th Congress ignored Trumans domestic proposals and past what act over Trumans veto?

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The Taft-Hartley act

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There is a wave of racial violence towards who

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African Americans

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Gimenez Congress for several measures supporting African-Americans, such as:

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Including a federal anti-lynching well, A ban on poll tax as a voting requirements and a permanent civil rights commission

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Did Congress accept the measures supporting African-Americans

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No

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Number of southern Democrats that protested Trumans emphasis on civil rights from the states rights Democratic Party and nominated their own presidential candidate

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Dixiecrat’s

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Who did the Dixiecrat’s nominate instead of Truman

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Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina

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Who won the next presidential election

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Truman

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An extension of Roosevelt’s new deal that included proposals for nationwide system of compulsory house insurance and crop subsidy system to provide a steady income for farmers

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Trumans fair deal

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Because of Germans fair deal what raise from $.40-$.75?
Minimum wage
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Who was president after Truman
Dwight D Eisenhower
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What was Eisenhowers nickname
Ike
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What future president speech saved his place on the Republican ticket
Richard Nixon
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The most significant judicial action occurred in 1945 when the Supreme Court ruled the public schools must be racially integrated
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
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Black seamstress that refuse to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
Rosa Parks
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What were things that why D Eisenhowers administration did while he was in office
Raise minimum-wage, extended Social Security and unemployment benefits, back the creation of interstate highways and the department of health, education, and welfare
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What kind of jobs did blue-collar people have
Industrial jobs
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What kind of job did white-collar people have
Clerical, managerial, or professional occupations
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Large corporations or government agencies. A major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries
Conglomerate
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A company that offers similar products or services in many locations
Franchise
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What is the first most successful franchise
McDonald's
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Who came up with McDonald's
Ray Kroc
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A book based on a classic 1956 study of suburban Park Forest Illinois and other communities
Organization
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He wrote the organization man
William H. Whyte
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What companies give people applying for jobs to make sure that they would fit into the corporate culture
Personality tests
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The unprecedented population explosion
Baby boom
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Dr. that discovered a breakthrough in vaccines
Dr. Jonas Salk
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Was this new vaccine for
Polio
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Man that wrote a book of children that every family in America followed
Dr. Benjamin Spock
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What book did this doctor write
Commonsense book of baby and childcare
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The 1950s what was the main job of the mother
Home maker
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If women were to have a real job, what were the three possible options
A nurse, teacher or office support
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Women generally received a little encouragement to do what
Pursue their goals
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Americans in the 1950s had a lot of what time
leisure
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An abundance of both imported and domestic we produced petroleum lead to inexpensive what for new automobiles
Gasoline
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In suburban living areas what was the necessity
A car
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What spurred local and state governments to construct the roads linking the major cities well connecting schools, shopping centers and workplaces to residential suburbs
Automania
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Authorize the building of a nation highway network
Interstate highway act
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What family visitation spot opened after the invention of the interstate
Disneyland
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What kind of people left the crowded cities
Middle-class and upper class
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Who were left in the cities
The poor
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Buying material goods
Consumerism
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A marketing strategy that encourage customers to purchase more goods, manufacturers purposely design products to become obsolete
Planned obsolescence
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What was it called when consumers could buy now and pay later
The installment plan
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What were shown in the newspapers magazines radio television and billboards to promote goods
Ads
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Means of communication that reach large audiences
Mass media
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Everment agency that regulates and licenses. Television, telegraph, radio, and other communications industries
Communications commissions
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The period of rapid expansion was known as what
Golden age
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Veteran radio broadcaster that introduced two innovations
Edward R Morrow
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On TV people were shown as what
Stereo typical portrayal of women in my
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What company lost a lot of customers due to the TV
The movie industry
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Sound that surrounded the viewer and was introduced in 1952
Stereo phonics sound
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Projected a wide angle image on the broad screen
Cinema scope
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Express the social and literary nonconformity of artists poets and writers that was Center in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City's Greenwich Village
The beat movement
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The followers of the beat movement were known as what
Beatniks
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This man begin promoting the new music that grew out of rhythm and blues and country pop
Alan freed
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What Was this new music known as
Rock 'n' roll
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People believe that rock 'n' roll would lead to teenage ___________ and _________
Delinquency and immorality
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Style of music characterized by the use of improvisation
Jazz
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The majority of the musicians in the 1950s were of what race
African-American
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Who were Considered the minorities in the 1950s
Single women, children, African-Americans, with Latinos , and Native-American
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The migration of white people to suburbs
White Flight
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He proposed solution to the housing problem in inner cities was known as what
Urban renewal
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New Leaders that provided aid in improving conditions in the inner-city
Housing and urban development
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Who became a US citizen during the 19 century
Mexicans
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Hired hands
Braceros
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One of the more notorious instances of prejudice against Mexican-Americans
Burial of Felix long Goria
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Mexican-American World War II hero who had been killed in the Philippines
Felix long Goria
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Moved official policy away from the assimilation and Jordan Native American autonomy
Indian re-organization act
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The two goals that the Congress had for American Indians:
To ensure the same civil rights at American sad and you enable Native Americans on reservations to retain their own customs
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The federal government's new approach that would give up it's responsibility for Native American tribes. Eliminated federal economic support, discontinue the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual native Americans
The termination policy
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Volunteering relocation program to help Native Americans resettling cities
Bureau of Indian affairs
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A veteran that settled down to rebuild his life after war
Sam Gordon

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