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Notes

Do Now: Order

the events,

then set up

your notes

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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Document Analysis