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
