3. Suburban culture

Question 1

Major migration from urban centres to the suburbs.

by 1970s how many americans suburban

Answer 1

80 million

40% of population

Question 2

Suburbs developed particular culture

Answer 2

encouraged a divide in the roles and responsibilities of sexes
Against women taking an active political role
Ambition, protest, wanting power on equal basis to men widely seen as neurotic & unnatural
Women ‘masculinizing’ themselves. Going against natural order

Question 3

Lyndon Johnson (Democratic successor after kennedy assassinated 1963)  maintained emphasis on reform 
Rapid series of domestic measures on a wide range of issues-

Answer 3

Civil rights to healthcare and education.

To create the ‘Great society’

Question 4

Re-emergence of political demands coincided with

Answer 4

a period of change in US politics and society