U.S. History Exit Ticket 49: 1950's Growth of Suburbs

The surge in the American population after WWII is known as:

• The baby boom

• The GI Bill

• White Flight

• Urban Decay

The first large scale suburb of affordable housing was built in New York. It was called

• Hollywood

• Anaheim

• Levittown

• Morristown

Residential area that sprang up close to surrounding cities as a result of improvements in transportation 

• Ghettos 
• Suburbs 
• Fall out shelter 
• Summits 

Examine the cartoon. What aspect of American society in the 1950s was the cartoonist making?

• high culture

• stay-at-home moms

• suburban conformity

• planned obsolescence

Which of the following most accurately describes planned postwar communities like Levittown?

• simple, low-cost housing for the working poor in cities

• large country homes designed to attract buyers

• small suburban homes that middle class families could afford

• custom-designed homes built to meet the needs of individual buyers

The birth of the largest generation of Americans born between 1946 & 1955 was called the

• Hippie Generation

• Gen X

• Millenials

• Baby Boom