s growth in the ownership and use of cars the most important feature of the US economy and society in the years 1955 to 1963?

Question 1

P1
P2
P2

Answer 1

Growth of car ownership and use of cars

growth of new industries:

Growth of suburbia

Question 2

In 1960 what rocketed and why?

Answer 2

Car ownership

Unprecedented prosperity and more money to spend

more job security

Question 3

in 1950 and 60 what was car ownership?

what did this signpost

Answer 3

1950- 39.3 million

1960- 73.4 million

American affluence

Question 4

What was the purchase of cars like in the 1930’s and why?

Answer 4

Down

depression

Question 5

Americans could partcipate in what due to increased wages

Answer 5

‘Consumer culture’

‘on the road culture’

Question 6

2 evidences for P1

Answer 6

Car ownership rocketed

Stimulation of other industries

Question 7

By 1960 what % owned at least 1 car

Answer 7

75%

Question 8

How many cars made per year from 1946

Answer 8

2 million

Question 9

What new industiry was stimulated due to cars?

Answer 9

Highway construction

Question 10

Increase in cars caused more what on roads

Answer 10

Traffic

Question 11

in 1955 Eisenhower told congress that what was vital to handle increase traffic

Answer 11

Interstate highway

Question 12

what act aimed to construct 40,000 miles of highway?

Answer 12

1944 Highway act

Question 13

How did the National interstate and Defences Highway affect other industry?

Answer 13

• stimulus to the construction industry, the car industry and the rapid growth of suburbia.

-Eisenhower = greatest achievement as president in the years 1953
to 1961.

Question 14

how many miles did the National interstate and Defences highway authorise?

Answer 14

41,000

Question 15

2 EVIdences for P2

Answer 15

availability of credit

Highway development

Question 16

What made the consumer boom of the 1950’s and 60’s easier?

Answer 16

ready availability of credit to buy goods and

services.

Question 17

Who and when introduced the first credit card?

Answer 17

1950 Diners club

Question 18

When did the American express introduce its own credit card?

Answer 18

1958

Question 19

How many customers bought on credit in 1960 in the company Sears Roebuck?

Answer 19

10 million

Question 20

In 1945 how many shopping centres were there and how did it change?

Answer 20

1945 there were 8 shopping centres but by 1960 there were
4,000.

New wealth and demand for new domestic technology turned shopping into a major recreational activity.

Question 21

in 1952 how much did P Truman propose to pay for highway construction?

Answer 21

$25 million

Question 22

what did the NATIONAL interstate and defences highway act 1956 open the continent to?

Answer 22

=Opened up the continent to travel and changed American society and culture

Question 23

credit cards made what easier?

Answer 23

shopping

purchasing

Question 24

2 evidences for P3

Answer 24

More JOb opportunities

Contributed to decline of cities

Question 25

Between 1948 and 58 how many new homes were built

Answer 25

13 million

11 million of them in suburbs

Question 26

in 1970 how many were in the suburbs and how many more than those in cities

Answer 26

80 million

15 million

Question 27

Who were the most famous builders in the suburbs?

Answer 27

Levitt Brothers

Question 28

What were the levit brothers developments known as?

Answer 28

Levittown’s

Question 29

how much were the levit homes and what were they like?

Answer 29

Well constructed

$8000

Question 30

What was the name for the movement of white middle class Americans to the suburbs from cities?

Answer 30

White flight

Question 31

How popular were the Levitt towns?

Answer 31

Very popular

queues to buy them

Question 32

cities lost what due to white flight

Answer 32

tax base led to detoriation

Question 33

3 traits of cities after white flight

Answer 33

noise , high tax, congestion

Question 34

by 1960 what % lived in suburbs

Answer 34

33%