1950s lifestyle

Question 1

reconversion

Answer 1

preparing america to shift from a war footing to a peacetime setting

both in industry and with the peeeples

Question 2

fears at the beginning of the decade (3)

Answer 2

• not enough jobs for veterans, lots of soldiers were unemploted
• another great depressopm
• expect earnings to fall

Question 3

what was the gi bill

Answer 3

helped the servicemen readjust to society

Question 4

what were 3 benefits of the gi bill

Answer 4

education payments
loans
readjustment wages

Question 5

what were the benefits of education

Answer 5

higher incomes and a higher standard of living

Question 6

roughly how many people reaped the benefits of the gi bill

Answer 6

1/3 of the population

Question 7

what’s the unemployment benefit of the gi bill

Answer 7

1 year of benefits for veterans who couldn’t find a job

Question 8

how were americans spending money

Answer 8

consumer goods

Question 9

how was the federal government spending money

Answer 9

defense budget
- weapons
- foreign aid

Question 10

what was the job market looking like

Answer 10

growth of new service sector jobs

Question 11

what was the economy like

Answer 11

high employment and wages plus low inflation

Question 12

what was important about consumer culture

Answer 12

it defined a disctinctive lifestyle

Question 13

how were there class changes

Answer 13

expansion of the middle class

Question 14

what did the diners club introduce in 1949

Answer 14

plastic credit card

Question 15

important change in food industry

Answer 15

first fast food mcdonalds opened in 1948

Question 16

what marked the emerging culture of consumption (4)

Answer 16

1. easy credit
2. high volume fast food
3. new forms of leisure
4. DA TELEVISION

Question 17

how was the housing market changed (4)

Answer 17

1.
low cost mortgages
2. a lot of new homes being built
3. especially in suburbia
4. people moved from urban to suburban

Question 18

how were people migrating within the country

Answer 18

urban to suburban

that and cheap homes caused the rise of suburbia

Question 19

levittown

Answer 19

cookie cutter houses in suburbia all by this guy william

Question 20

where did government encourage movement out of

Answer 20

cities

Question 21

was it more economically attractive to rent or buy a home

Answer 21

buy

Question 22

byt 1960 ____ americans lived in suburbia

Answer 22

25%

Question 23

federal housing administration

Answer 23

The goals of this organization are: to improve housing standards and conditions; to provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans; and to stabilize the mortgage market.

What was the impact of the Federal Housing Administration?
The agency also extended the repayment period of home mortgages from 5–10 years to 20–30 years. The resulting reductions in monthly mortgage payments helped to prevent foreclosures, often made buying a home cheaper than renting, and allowed families with stable but modest incomes to qualify for a home mortgage

Question 24

highways

Answer 24

In June 1956, Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 into law. Under the act, the federal government would pay for 90 percent of the cost of construction of Interstate Highways

Question 25

cookie cutter homes

Answer 25

identical houses

Question 26

what was a direct result of suburbanization

Answer 26

segregation

Question 27

who did zoning laws exclude

Answer 27

black buyers

Question 28

white flight

Answer 28

whites leaving because there were so many black people in the city

Question 29

what did the federal housing administration have to say about segregation

Answer 29

incompatible racial groups should not be permitted to live in the same communities

Question 30

how long were black prohibited from buying houses in the suburbs

Answer 30

until the 60s

Question 31

what did economic prosperity create

Answer 31

mobility and the middle class

Question 32

redlining

Answer 32

mortgage security maps would shade minority neighborhoods in red signifying risky investments

Question 33

why was it hard for minorities to improve housing

Answer 33

because banks refused to loan money for new homes or improvements in the inner city neighborhoods where minorities lived

Question 34

where did minorities tyically live

Answer 34

in inner city neighborhoods

Question 35

what was the consequence of housing segregation

Answer 35

minority neighborhoods were left underdeveloped or in disrepair this became a generational issue has the desparities trickled down through generations

Question 36

inequality in real estate hinders

Answer 36

ability of the non homeowner to gain equity

Question 37

what was the women workforce looking like

Answer 37

percentage of women working increased but the percentage of women working in male dominated fields decreased as the soldiers came back from ww2

Question 38

what was one result of the baby boom

Answer 38

needed more teachers

Question 39

could married women work

Answer 39

it wasn't illegal but it was heavily frowned upon by society

Question 40

what job opportunities did african americans have

Answer 40

only domestic laborers

Question 41

when were women supposed to marry

Answer 41

young

Question 42

mrs. degree

Answer 42

society's idea that women only went to college to find a husband, not for actual education

Question 43

what was the goal of a married woman

Answer 43

to be a stay at home mom, certainly not to have a job, and make sure to have as many kiddos as you can pop em out

Question 44

why was the nuclear family important during the cold war

Answer 44

strong family unit will help us defeat the soviets in cold war

Question 45

nuclear family

Answer 45

a family group consisting of most commonly, a father and mother and their children, from what is known as an extended family. Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only children and two parents

Question 46

why were some insecure men against their wife working

Answer 46

because it's emasculating if your wife works

Question 47

what were some popular shows

Answer 47

- keeping up with the joneses - father knows best - i love lucy - leave it to beaver

Question 48

media portrayals of women

Answer 48

the ideal suburban housewife who cared for the home and children appeared frequently in women's magazines, in the movies and on television. stupid and serving to men, needed men's guidance

Question 49

what did shows commonly portray (2)

Answer 49

- white pickett fence - american dream - women stereotypes

Question 50

what did the artistic world revile (4)

Answer 50

1. conformity 2. middle class materialism 3. racism 4. uniformity

Question 51

was rejecting materialism common

Answer 51

no the people who did it were detatched from mainstream america

Question 52

beat generation aka

Answer 52

beatniks

Question 53

what was the beat generation

Answer 53

literary as well as social movement beginning in the late 1940s

Question 54

who led the beat generation

Answer 54

poets, writers, artists

Question 55

beat generation rejected mainstream america and thought it was

Answer 55

square and uncool

Question 56

members of the generation that came of age after ww2

Answer 56

kids of the greatest generation

Question 57

beat generation was precursor to the

Answer 57

hippies

Question 58

beat generation adopted mystical detatchment and relaxation of

Answer 58

social and sexual tensions

Question 59

beat generation experimented with

Answer 59

sexual freedom and mind altering drugs

Question 60

why is it called the beat generation

Answer 60

sense of being beaten down

Question 61

who coined the name beat generation

Answer 61

jack kerouac

Question 62

the beat generation had roots in

Answer 62

jazz and street slang

Question 63

beatnik

Answer 63

originally a derogatory term referencing the russian sputnik kinda like ew communist because sputnik was the first russian satelittle launched into space

Question 64

which beat went to supreme court and why

Answer 64

allen ginesberg because his book had profanity and obscenity and people took him to surpeme court and he won redeeming social significance

Question 65

jack kerouac wrote

Answer 65

on the road

Question 66

allen ginsberg wrote

Answer 66

howl

Question 67

william s burroughs wrote

Answer 67

naked lunch

Question 68

where were beat ideals most prominent

Answer 68

started in nyc in the east coast but more prominent on the west coast