Postwar America
Small residential communities around cities?
Suburbs
Generation born between 1945-1965
The baby boom
What is the FCC? What does it do?
Federal Communications Commission. Regulates communications.
Hired hands from Mexico who were allowed into the U.S to work
Braceros
Television show to have the first interracial couple
I Love Lucy
Legislation created to help veterans return home?
GI Bill of rights
Corporation that owns smaller, unrelated companies
Conglomerates
Acting according to certain accepted standards.
Conformity
5 million African Americans moved from ____ south to _____ north
Rural South. Urban North
Business made popular thanks to automania
Drive in movies
President who's moto was "the buck stops here"
Harry Truman
Company that offers similar products, services in many places
Franchise
Writers and artists who used their work to express social change
Beat movement
The replacement of rundown buildings with new low-income housing
Urban renewal
Vaccine created by Dr. Jonas Salk
Polio
Economic program which included higher minimum wage, flood control, and low-income housing
The idea of making products that outdated or wear out
Planned Obsolescence
Rock 'n' roll
Program that cut economic support of Native Americans and forced resettlement in cities.
Termination Policy
The first mass-produced suburbs
Levitowns
Difference between Truman and Eisenhower's actions on civil rights?
Truman was pro civil rights while Eisenhower avoided the civil rights movement.
Nationwide highway network that united the country
Why are teenagers attracted to rock 'n' roll? How did parents react?
Incident in which an undertaker refused the funeral service of Mexican American veteran.
The Longoria Incident
Slang for a person who conforms to traditional social norms
Square