Unit 2H.2 - The USA, 1955-92: conformity and challenge
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Summary Essay Plan: To what extent did the USA experience considerable urbanisation and affluence in the years 1955 to 1963.
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Unit 2H.2 - The USA, 1955-92: conformity and challenge
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Topic 1 Essay Plan for "To what extent did the USA experience considerable urbanisation and affluence in the years 1955 to 1963". Multiple paragraohs with criteria
Unit 2H.2 - The USA, 1955-92: conformity and challenge
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numbers living in urban areas rose from 97 million in
1950 to 125 million in 1960
number of people living on rural farms fell from 23 great change
million in 1950 to 13 million in 1960. in population
distribution
Many took the opportunity to have a new life where
consumer goods were plentiful and the standard of living
higher.
Black Americans continued to escape rural poverty and
racial discrimination in the Old South by moving to northern
cities not equal
The opportunities
In the 1950s, the USAs 12 largest cities gained 1.8
changing and living
million non-white residents leading to increased racial
nature of standards for
tension.
cities all
many cities were becoming racially segregated and city americans
centres were becoming the preserve of non-whites (such
as the Watts district of LA and Harlem in NYC)
To what accommodation in inner city areas became rundown
extent did racial ghettos many cities failed to provide the public white
the USA housing required for these areas. Americans
experience
In the period 1949 to 1959, only 320,000 houses were benefit more
considerabl
funded under President Truman's Public Housing Act than
e
and where public housing areas were provided, much of non-white
urbanisation
the accommodation was cramped / densely populated Americans
and
affluence in areas with poor public amenities
the years new suburbs were dominated by white Americans.
1955 to
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) supported
1963?
anti-Jewish and anti-black restrictive covenants on
new suburban housing developments meaning that significant
non-white residents of cities were barred from much change in
suburban development. real estate
Levittowns: purpose-built new communities of landscape
affordable private housing, initially for whites only.
The Levittowns of over 17,000 houses each were built in New
expansion York State and Pennsylvania.
of the Growth was also helped by cheap home loans from
suburbs organisations such as the Federal Housing
Administration who financed 30 percent of all new
homes in the USA in the 1950s.
three in five families owned a home by 1960 growing
People also migrated across the USA.deserting the affluence
north-east for life in the 'Sun Belt: areas like Florida and
California in Florida
By 1970, 80 million Americans lived in suburbs, 15
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