Cars
Family/Home
Suburbia
Conformity
Economy
100
Chevy, Ford, Dodge
What are the 3 most popular car brands at the time?
100
Mother, Father, Son, Daughter, and a Dog.
What is a Nuclear Family?
100
Housing project outside cities, originally invented by William Levitt
What is a Levittown?
100
the idea that everybody/everything should be relatively the same, and stay in their place in the world
What is conformity?
100
a period in us history when government spening was high, wages were high, and inflation rates were low to none
What is the economic boom?
200
internal combustion engine
What type of engine do cars have?
200
Stay at home, cook, clean, have children
What was the common idea of a mother's job?
200
Houses, schools, diners, churches
What are the components of a suburb?
200
orange, grey, blue, pink
What are the most common car colors in the 1950s?
200
hard work
What is how people in the 1950s expected to get wealthy?
300
wings/fins above the back taillights
What is a common feature of cars in the 1950s?
300
from 1946-1964, 77 million babies were born, causing the US population to skyrocket
What is the baby boom?
300
military housing during WW2
What is the original purpose of suburbs?
300
2 story, white picket fence, sidewalk going up to the door, green lawn with a garden near the house, shake shingle roofing
What is the ideal house in the 1950s?
300
buy now, pay later
What is an ad campaign put forth by the car industry, that seeped into the mind of every man woman and child in the 1950s?
400
over 60 million automobiles
how many cars were bought in the 1950s?
400
working a 9 to 5 office job, coming home in a car, sitting down, drinking a martini, having dinner, going to bed
What is the average day of a man in the 1950s?
400
outside New York City
Where was the first suburb located?
400
living in the suburbs, owning a small business with your family
What is the American Dream?
400
the Diners' Club Card
What is the first credit card?
500
Germany and France
What is the place where cars were perfected?
500
making breakfast, waking up kids, walking kids to the bus stop, cleaning up breakfast, cleaning up any messes made earlier, helping children do their homework, making dinner, spending time with family, going to bed
What is the average day in the life of a 1950s woman?
500
for middle class, white american citizens. others were restricted from here.
What is Levittown?
500
the idea that through hard work, and trying to outdo your peers, you will become successful, paired with the need to be ethical and kind to others
What is the american way?
500
converse to now, in the 1950s, ___ was necessary for keeping the economy stable and was actually a sign of a healthy family?
What is debt?
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