50's

Suburbia

Beatniks

TV

Cars

Rock n Roll

Baby Boom Generation

How did the automobile tranform the economy?

Transportation

They became an everyday thing

Jobs began to revolve around atuomobiles

Vacations

Interstate system

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Explain how this changed the landscape of America

development of houses

After World War II, there was an expansion of the population. This caused the need for more housing and other needs of people. Most people resorted to homes outside the cities like suburbs because there it was cheaper.

Over the next couple of years suburbs became very popular and helped the government to give GI bills to the veterans of World War II and the Korean War

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Radio was abandoned

Poeple spent a thrid of their hours on the tv per day

Tide clean was one of the first commercial

Magazines came out.

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The Playboy adds were risky so the maker didn't add his name

Silent actors with bongos

They hang around populated places.

Poetry with bongos

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Altering music

It was considered satans music because children were changing dance moves

It was everything Suburbia wasn't

Generation change

Sports and everyday iesures grew in popularity

Tv's brought families together

Age of innocence

Lived in cold war fear

Optimism was shattered after president kennedy's assination

Over 4 million three hundred and eight thousand babies were born a year

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