1. Agenda Bell Work Questions What was a Levitt Town?
What was the Fair Deal?
What was the Federal Highway Act?
What is suburbanization?
How did Russian technology change the US school system?
Working on book questions
Staying in your seat all hour

2. Agenda MME American 439-440 Notes over the 1950s Chapter 16 Notes
Chapter 16 section 1 questions 1-5

3. Post War America

6. Taft-Hartley Act: outlawed closed shops- hiring only union workers.
Truman’s Role
GI Bill: Servicemen's Readjustment Act, provided generous funds to buy businesses, homes, and to attend college
Taft-Hartley Act: outlawed closed shops- hiring only union workers.
States could pass right to work laws
Truman veto it and congress passed it
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in to restrict labor strikes that threatened the national interest.

8. Truman’s Fair Deal
Pre Fair Deal
Pushed for African American rights policies: Anti lynching law, which would make it a federal crime. No more polling tax. Ended segregation in the armed forces.
Fair Deal
More money for S.S., Increase in minimum wage, end slums and a public housing act, national health insurance, civil rights policies.

9. Challenges
One of President Truman’s greatest challenges in reconverting to a peacetime economy, was too keep inflation in check.
Followed one of the greatest president’s in the countries history

11. Creates the Interstate Highway system Federal Highway Act
IKE
Ike= Dwight Eisenhower
World War II hero
Creates the Interstate Highway system
Federal Highway Act
Leads to commercial trucking
Rise of suburbs
Creates a traveling culture
Less reliance on the public transportation system.

13. Suburbia
Levittown: a New York mass-produced suburb
Cheap Homes
Mass production
People moved to suburbs and would start a family
Baby Boom: 65 million children would be born from
One child born every 7 seconds
Rapid suburbanization in the 1950’s was primarily the result of White, middle-class Americans’ desire for conformity.

16. Workers
One effect of business expansion after World War II, was the shift in the work force from blue-collar to white-collar jobs.
White-collar jobs: non-labor position that is mostly an office position.
Blue-collar jobs: Manual labor position, for example an assembly line worker.
Women would become homemakers in the 1950s.

17. Technology & Schooling
Transistors: allowed electronics to be created smaller than before.
Major technological breakthroughs occurred in the 1950’s
The creation of the transistor, the mass- production of the television, creation of the first computer.
The 1957 launching of Sputnik caused the United States to change curriculum, so Congress to increase spending on teaching science and mathematics.

19. Other Side of America
The gross national product and per capita income changed in the 1950s and Both gross national product and per capita income increased dramatically.
1 in 5 Americans lived on poverty still.
People living in the inner cities, and Appalachia were the largest areas affected.
Urban renewal: effort to help tear down slums and provide funding for those families in need.

20. Programs
Termination Policy: After World War II, Native Americans suffered from the government policy which forced them into main-stream society.
Bracero Program: Bring workers into the United States from Mexico to work as farm hands.

21. Overall Problems
The United States had a surplus of luxury items. As the men were traveling home the government tried to influence the women into leaving the factory and becoming a fulltime homemaker. The women were not forced into this.

22. Agenda Bell Work Go over Book Questions Work on review sheet
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Test Friday
Review Thursday

23. Bell Work
Write the following questions in your notes.
Based on the map identify the Sunbelt of the US.
From 1950 – 2000 what is the trend in population migrations?
What is one possible explanation for the current trend in population migrations? Be sure to explain your answer.