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The Baby Boom

Franklin Reed avatar Franklin Reed
21 February 2023
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One of the benefits of the new suburban lifestyle of the 1950s was that
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Suburban homes had yards and crime was low
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Who applied assembly-line techniques to home construction in the 1950s?
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William Levitt
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What best describes the postwar US economy?
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Experts incorrectly predicted that an economic collapse would follow the end of WWII
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Owning a car during the 1950s in the US was mostly
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a sign of status and success
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The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the growth of suburbs both had a negative impact on
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the nations cities
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In their TV and radio advertisements, many car companies of the 1950s promoted
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family road vacations
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What best describes a change that inpacted African Americans in the 1950s?
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Court cases challenged the legality of discrimination
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What phrase was used by economist John Kenneth Galbraith to describe the prosperity of the 1950s?
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"affluent society"
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In the 1950s more and more homes had a television due to what?
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mass production
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When did the baby boom take place in the U.S.?
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between 1946 and 1964