Welcome to the 1950's!
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What was it like?
• Population of the US in 1950’s?– 151,684,000
• Life Expectancy for Women and Men?– Women- 71.1 Men- 65.6
• Average Salary? Minimum Wage?– $2,992.00 - $0.75
• Cost of a loaf of bread?– $0.14
• Cost of a gallon of milk? – $0.82
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Events• 1950- President Harry Truman
approves production of the hydrogen bomb and sends air force and navy to Korea in June.
• 1951- Transcontinental television begins with a speech by President Truman.
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Events• 1952- The Immigration and
Naturalization Act of 1952 removes racial and ethnic barriers to becoming a U.S. citizen.
• 1953-1961- Dwight D. Eisenhower is president.
• 1953- Fighting ends in Korea
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Events• 1954- Racial segregation is ruled
unconstitutional in public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1955- Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama and Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for polio.
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Events• 1956- The Federal Highway Act is
signed, marking the beginning of work on the interstate highway system.
• 1957- Civil Rights Act passed increasing protection of voting right and expanded civil rights law.
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Events• 1958- Explorer I, the first U.S.
satellite, successfully orbits the earth and the first domestic jet-airline passenger service was begun by National Airlines.
• 1959- Alaska and Hawaii become the forty-ninth and fiftieth states.
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Patsy Cline
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Johnny Cash
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Carl Perkins
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Bill Haley and the Comets
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Little Richard