POST ECONOMIC BOOM

What class lived outside the city and generally inherited their money?

• High class

• Middle class (white collar)

• Working class (blue collar)

A peripheral district of a city, especially a residential one.

• Fair Deal

• Suburbs

• Veterans Rights Act

• Beat Movement

A social and economic order and ideology that promotes the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

• Suburbs

• Mass Media

• Consumerism

• Beat Movement

The massive increase in the population of America after World War II.

• Fair Deal

• Baby Boom

• Beat Movement

• Consumerism

Any of the means of communication, such as television or newspapers, that reach a large number of people.

• Consumerism

• Beat Movement

• Mass Media

• Jazz

What is the name of the subdivision that was built after World War II and helped provide affordable housing to middle-class families?

• Levittown

• Hoovervilles

• Midtown

• Schererville

What was one effect of the economic prosperity of the 1950s?

• Americans invested in home-based consumer goods such as televisions, appliances, and cars.

• Americans heavily invested in the stock market

• Americans continued to pay high taxes

• Americans bought more foreign goods produced in Asian countries like Korea and Japan

What was the image of the ideal woman in the 1950s?

• Nurse

• Teacher

• Housewife

• Astronaut

 The baby boom in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s had its most significant impact on

• rebirth of urban commercial districts

•  decrease in the use of child labor in factories

• recruitment for the armed forces

•  construction of housing and schools

Referring to workers who perform manual labor and wear work clothes.

• workforce

• blue-collar

• white-collar

• unions