2. Discretionary Income - Money that people spend on items they want but do not need

3. GI Bill- legislation increased the amount of people in college and helped people buy homes

4. The Fair Deal attempted to continue many New Deal policies

5. William J. Levitt contributed to the growth of suburbs by mass-producing houses

6. The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in the suburbs People criticized the suburban lifestyle for the sameness of the homes, lack of privacy, decline of individuality Some

7. Service Sector - Jobs such as insurance agents and financial advisors (not manufacturing a product)

8. Automobiles were extremely important to the development of suburbs

9. Reasons people moved to the suburbs to escape the crime of cities to be nearer parks and woods wanting larger lots

10. To oppose Truman’s support of Civil Rights, some politicians formed the Dixiecrat Party

11. Taft-Hartley Act- Overturned many rights won by unions during the New Deal

12. Baby Boom- Causes of the baby boom –reunions of husbands & wives at the end of WWII –a decreasing marriage age & a strong desire for large families –advances in medicine

13. Affect of the Baby Boom –helped the economy

14. Television was criticized in the 1950s for being too violent.

15. Dr. Benjamin Spock Encouraged- –Women staying at home and raising kids –Families having meetings so children could express themselves –Government paying mothers to stay home Discouraged –Parents spanking children

16. American society in the 1950s expected women to manage the household

17. Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson for the presidency in 1952

18. President Dwight Eisenhower initiated the Interstate Highway System in 1956

19. One lasting-effect of the major highway-building projects of the 1950s was less reliance on public transportation

20. Richard Nixon made the Checkers Speech to make Americans realize that he was not involved a scandal in 1952.

21. In the 1950s, most Americans were for conformity

22. Warminster and Southampton are examples of suburban areas that developed in the 1950s and 1960s.

23. The group in the 1950s that opposed the conformity of American society was the Beatniks

24. Ethel & Julius Rosenberg- the first espionage case in U.S. history where the guilty were executed

25. When writing about “The Other America” Harrington was talking about the parts of American society that did not enjoy prosperity in the 1950s