Vocab
People
Essays and Others
Mystery
Mystery
100
-Small homes in residential communities surrounding cities -80% of new homes were built in suburbs
what is a suburb?
100
artists and poets
The beat movement centered around what group?
100
~Men were home from the war ~people wanted large families ~advances in medicine ~people were economically stable ~age of marriage was decreasing
Reasons for the baby boom?
100
white men
What group of people were benefited most?
100
-Jazz used improvisation -African Americans
-How was Jazz different from other genres of music? -What group of people founded it?
200
~Mexican laborers hired to work -many were illegal
who were braceros
200
the vaccine for polio
Dr. Jonas Salk developed.......
200
-Males outnumbered women on TV 3:1 -Women were always the housemothers -African Americans and Latinos rarely appeared in TV programs at all. -Coybows vs. Indians, Cowboys were the good guys and the Indians were the bad guys who were going to scalp you for no reason.
What were some stereotypes on TV and in movies?
200
hula-hoop
WAM-O came out with this toy....
200
I Love Lucy
#1 TV show
300
Motown
This african american recording label began in 50s but didn't become big untill the 60s
300
Jack Keruac
The song "On the Road" was written by.....
300
-old buildings were torn down & replaced with new, affordable housing, highways, parks, and shopping centers -Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was created to aid and improve conditions in the inner city. -rise of suburbs
How was their urban renewal?
300
-Smell-O-Vision -Aroma-Rama -3d -50% of movies were color
How did movies compete with TV shows?
300
-gave veterans tuition, and a year’s worth of unemployment benefits while they hunted for a job
What did the GI Bill do?
400
~An attempt to eliminate federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans. ~This was a failure and the native americans moved into cities looking for jobs but they were not successful and unemployed
What was the termination policy
400
Richard Nixon
Who was Eisenhower's Vice President?
400
He encouraged people not to punish their kids, to have family meetings, have women home with their kids, and to let the kids express themselves freely
What did Dr. Benjamin Spock say about how children should be treated?
400
-Dwight D. Eisenhower -"I am conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to people”
-Who used the "Middle of the Road" election strategy? -What did it state (word for word)?
400
-watched TV -listen to the radio -watch a movie -drive in their car -etc.
How did leisure change? -What did people do in their free time?
500
a conglomerate
What is A large corporation that owns many small businesses
500
He ran against Adlai Stevenson and Eisenhower won
-Who did Dwight D. Eisenhower run against in 1952? -Who won?
500
~men were home from the war ~advances in medicine ~people wanted larger families ~people were economically ~age of marriage was decreasing
reasons for the baby boom
500
-San Francisco,LA, and Greenwich village NY -Beatniks lived free of regular work and sought a higher consciousness through Buddhism, music and sometimes drugs -Allen Ginsberg -Jack Kerouac
What was the beat movement? Who were some famous beatniks?
500
-They were unable to find jobs because of the racism -They also didn’t have any training for jobs or medical care
What happened when Native Americans moved to cities?
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