Fair Deal
What were the factors of the new deal?
Social Security, labor protections, public works.
How housing was standardized.
What is Levittown-style construction? Costs and building speeds were cut.
How many cars the norm per family?
1 Car
Define Innovation
Innovation accelerates home life,industry, and health outcomes across the decades.
Whom was pushed out of factory jobs
What is Women & Teens?
What was the vision of the fair deal?
Truman proposes national health insurance, civil rights, housing, and education aid.
How retail changed.
What are supermarkets, chains, and catalogs?
What did cars symbolize?
They symbolize freedom and status.
What did Television change?
Television had changed novelty to necessity; forming nightly news, sitcoms, and ads consumer habits.
What promotes domestic roles for women
What is Cultural Pressure?
what act passed during the new deal?
Housing Act of 1949 (slum clearance, public housing), minimum wage hike, Social Security expansion.
How industry changed.
What are appliances, autos, and electronics?
What were the big three of cars.
GM,Ford,Chrysler
Nuclear power promotion?
Nuclear power promoted civilian energy;plants planned for regional grids.
Things built (new) in South Jersey
What is new campuses and gyms?
What parts of the fair deal stall?
National health insurance and broad civil rights bills blocked by Congress.
Drived desire for cars, appliances and brand names.
What are TV ads?
What was the highway system?
Local Roads,Turnpikes,State Routes.
What did early computers inspire?
Computers inspire business data processing and defense computing foundations.
Reason for driving school construction up
What is Baby Boom Children?
what were the similarities and differences of the new deal and fair deal?
key similarities federal action to boost security and opportunity. Key difference: Fair Deal targets postwar prosperity gaps rather than Depression-era crisis.
What expanded purchases?
What expands as families drive long distances?
Howard Johnson Holiday INN
What vaccine had changed the public health?
The Polio vaccine had transformed with antibiotics and new surgical techniques to expand care.
2 things that hit all time highs
What is secondary-school enrollment & graduation hit new highs?