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1 An Affluent Society

2 Kitchen Debate

3 The Golden Age

4 Suburban Nation Levittown NY

5 Shopping Malls

6 Growth of Cities

7 A Consumer Culture Shift towards service goods

8 TV

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10 A New Ford

11 Organization Men

12 Housewife

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15 Baby Boom

16 Segregated Landscape

17 1949 Housing Act passed by Congress
Whites moved to suburbs Blacks moved into cities Urban Decay Blockbusting Suburban ownership white entitlement

18 Puerto Ricans

19 End of Ideology Ills of American Society had been solved
Judeo-Christian heritage Secularization Free Enterprise Stock Market

20 Libertarian Milton Friedman

21 New Conservatism Search for absolute truth
Freedom is a moral condition Two enemies (Soviet Union & Expanding Federal Government)

22 Segregated Schools

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24 Rosa Parks

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