1. Chapter 17 Section 2
Society on the Move

2. Interstate Highway Act
1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

3. Sunbelt
Name given to the region of states in the south and the southwest

4. Service Sector
Businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods
Such as healthcare, law, retail, banking, or insurance

5. Information Industry Businesses that provide informational services
Computers
ENIAC, first computer, took up 18,000 square feet, or the size of three basketball court

6. Franchise Business
Allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators
Holiday Inn’s founded by Kemmons Wilson

7. Multinational Corporation
Companies that produce and sell their goods all over the world
General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and Coca Cola

8. AFL-CIO
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united in 1955
First president, George Meany

9. California Master Plan
Called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state’s citizens

10. Post War Changes in U.S.
Society
Economy
Education

11. Society Growth of Suburbs Build affordable houses in a hurry
Highways linked suburbs to cities

12. Society Increase in automobile ownership
Ownership jumped from 26 million in 1945 to 60 million in 1960

13. Society Interstate highways Eisenhower funded for first major highways
Around 41,000 miles built

14. Society
Family travel to national and state parks

15. Society
Migration to the Sunbelt

16. Society Shifts in political representation
When people moved the political power went with them
The suburbs and sunbelt gained representation

17. Economy
Service Economy

18. Economy
Fewer people in manufacturing and farming

19. Economy
Multinational corporations

20. Economy
Franchise Businesses

21. Economy
AFL-CIO

22. Education
More people attended college

23. Education
Federal people attended college

24. Education
States boosted funding for public universities

25. Education
California Master Plan

26. Causes and Effects of Moving to the Sunbelt
Jobs in new industries
Better Climate
Housing Shortage
Effects
Population growth and the development of air conditioning
Population growth and the development in political power
Growth of suburbs

27. Classwork
How did Americans living in the suburbs benefit from the “car culture”?
How did the Interstate Highway System spur the growth of the suburbs
In what ways did American businesses change during the postwar period?
How did American education change in the years following World War II?