Ch.16 Vocab Review

Population increase of more that 65 million from 1945 to 1961

• Affluent Society

• Suburbia

• Baby Boom

• Levittown

Living with relative prosperity, conformity, and relative peace

• White Collar

• Affluence

• Suburbia

• Blue Collar

office work and desk jobs increasing because of the mechanization of farms and factories

• Blue Collar

• White Collar

• Middle Management

• Franchise

Cultural difference between older and younger people, sometimes created by changes in media

• Generation Gap

• Delinquency

• Prosperity

• Baby Boom

Matching the norms, beliefs, and attitudes of the society you live in

• Conformity

• Affluence

• Delinquency

• Generation Gap

Government figure reflecting the minimum income required to support a family

• Generation Gap

• Poverty Line

• Social Security

• Medicare

Developing and modernizing areas of a city, specifically areas of poverty or decline

• Poverty Line

• Levittown

• Suburbs

• Urban Renewal