Unit 14: The 1950's

Changes we see in the middle class during the 1950's

-Baby boom -Fast food -Levittowns -White-collar jobs on rise -Automobiles

Segregation in the 1950's

A heavy issue in the 1950's. De facto segregation like restrictive covenant and De Jure segregation like miscegenation. There was segregation in marriage, housing, workplace, politics, sports, public accommodations, and in schools.

The industry of food production by large corporations or wealthy individuals

Agribusiness

What minority group were the poorest American citizens apart of

American Indians

Mountainous region in the South that was very poor, mainly old coal mining areas

Appalachia

A large increase in the number of babies born in proportion to the size of the population

Baby boom

People who work in factories or at skilled trades, such as plumbing or auto repair

Blue-collar workers

The supreme court case in which 12 parents tried to desegregate the city's school

Brown V.S. Board of Education

This is a barrier created by custom, law, and economic differences- that separated whites from non-whites

Color line

What new device enters the workforce to help speed up work production and record keeping?

Computer

A measure of the differences in the price of goods and services over time and place in which you live

Consumer Price Index

An increase in the supply of money or credit relative to the availability of goods in services, resulting in generally higher prices is known was what?

Demand-pull inflation

A new attraction for families and a destination for family vacations in the 1950's

Disneyland

This splintered democratic party stood for complete segregation of the races

Dixiecrats

Republican war hero who won the 1952 election with a catchy slogan

Eisenhower "I like Eike"

President Truman's program to increase the minimum wage, increase aid to agriculture and education, and enact a national health insurance program

Fair Deal

An act that redrew district lines to eliminate black votes in certain districts

Gerrymandering

Income measured by the amount of goods and services it will buy, regardless of inflation is known as what?

Gross Domestic Product

The goal of this system was to connect major cities around the country

Interstate highway system

Laws that established separate public facilities for whites and blacks across the South were often called

Jim Crow Laws

First planned community in the nation?

Levittowns

Fast food chain created in California by brothers, which started the fast food era

McDonalds

Term for interracial marriage

Miscegenation

The first full-scale one of these power plants opened in Shippingport, Pennsylvania

Nuclear power plant

The state of being impoverished and dependent on public assistance for survival

Pauperism

The desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than necessary

Planned Obsolescence

Supreme Court ruling of separate but equal

Plessy V.S. Ferguson

What is an example of a vaccine created in the 1950's to stop the Polio disease?

Polio Vaccine

What did Americans feel to be as much a moral condition as an economic problem?

Poverty

An agreement among neighbors to not sell or rent to African Americans or other racial minorities

Restrictive Covenant

A sign of wealth and prestige

Status symbol

Warm-weather states that stretch across the southern third of the United States from Florida to California (Six states)

Sunbelt

The republican congress took aim at the labor unions by passing which act?

Taft-Hartley Act

Policy that ended federal aid to tribes, withdrew federal land protection, and distributed tribal land among individuals

Termination Policy

Families with dads who went to work each day and moms who stayed home

Traditional families

Election of 1948

Truman (Moderate democrat), Wallace (Left wing democrat), Dewy (Republican), Dixiecrats (Democratic) Truman wins because he gets democrats to swing their votes after reminding them all he did for him to help us get through WWll

What did the government replace slums for with high-rises?

Urban Renewal

Primary election in which only whites could participate

White Primary

This group includes professionals such as doctors and lawyers, engineers, salespeople, managers, and office staff

White-collar workers

People in society who work, but earn wages too low to lift them out of poverty

Working poor

To deny voting rights

disenfranchise