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3/1/2016Life in the 1950s
Key Terms:
subversive something that undermines the
authority of an established institution
suburbs residential communities outside of
cities conformity behaving as society expects
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I Love Lucy
Observe this clip as a historian. What
does this teach us about the 1950s?
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What was it like to live in the
1950s?
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What was it like to live in the
1950s?
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Veterans Come Home
GI Bill of Rights, 1944
low-cost mortgages,
low-interest loans to start a business,
paid tuition for college,
one full year of unemployment
Baby Boom huge rise in birthrate, 1945-1960
Federal Interstate Highway Act (1956) built modern
highway system, made construction of suburbs possible
Whites move to the suburbs, people of color increasingly
crowded in urban ghettos
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Veterans Come Home
Levittown first
planned housing
development,
entirely white
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Rise of Religion
2/3 of Americans involved in religion highest
number ever
Rev. Billy Graham led popular evangelical
revivals Addition of one nation under God to pledge
and In God We Trust to currency (1954)
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Great Migration
Great Migration from WWI through 1950s,
blacks moved North
By 1960, half of all African-Americans lived in
northern cities Invention of new cotton picking machines made
sharecropping obsolete
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1950s Culture
Ideal of nuclear family,
conformity, traditional
gender roles
Spread of TV
Elvis Presley & Rock n
Roll white performers,
traditionally black styles Beatniks counterculture
literature, protested
against conformist culture
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Check for Understanding
Describe the dominant white culture of the
1950s
What minority, subversive, or dissenting
cultures also existed in the 1950s?
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