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baby boom ANS✔✔ In the post war era Americans wanted to make babies resulting in the "baby
boom." This caused the population to grow by 30% which was more than 28 million people.
Federal Housing Administration ANS✔✔ The FHA encouraged the population growth and urbanization
by insuring 90% of builders' construction loans and insuring home buyers' mortgages.
suburbia ANS✔✔ The continuation of population growth in urban and suburban areas in addition to
cars becoming more available led to the formation of suburbia; people could now commute from these
small towns just outside the city thanks to transportation by cars.
federal highway programs ANS✔✔ When the government started supporting more road construction
such as Eisenhower's interstate highway system, automobile production increased.
Levittowns ANS✔✔ William Levitt was the first to start mass-produced house development when he
built 10,000 houses on Long Island in 1947 causing a huge growth in the suburbs. It was known as
Levittown and from then on developers copied Levitt throughout the country.
consumer credit ANS✔✔ Consumer credit was what post-war consumption depended on as long-term
saving declined. The consumer credit expanded by 800% between 1945 and 1957 while the savings rate
dropped to 5% of income.
rock n' roll/Elvis Presley ANS✔✔ Rock'n'roll was the major industry during the time funded by teen
consumerism. Elvis Presley was the first star of this music genre in the 1950s.
, Norman Vincent Peale ANS✔✔ In the post-war period, American church-going rose until it reached 65%
in 1960. Peale was the author of best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking which discussed the
tendency of religion to emphasize reassurance. Critics pointed out how shallow this kind of religion was.
Reinhold Niebbhur ANS✔✔ Niebbuhr was a neo-orthodox theologian who criticized the self-
centeredness of popular religion and how it failed to recognize the reality of sin.
The Beats ANS✔✔ -group of young men alienated by 20th century life
-originated in Greenwich Village, NY
-embraced alcohol, drugs, sex, jazz, Buddhism, and vagabond lifestyle
Plessy v. Ferguson ANS✔✔ Plessy vs. Ferguson was a case in 1896 where the Supreme Court decided to
uphold racial segregation according to state laws with the idea of "separate but equal" in public
education. "Separate but equal" doctrine was followed until 1954 when the Supreme Court decided in
Brown v. Board of Education to allow the desegregation of public schools.
Great Migration ANS✔✔ The Great Migration took place in the early twentieth century and was an
important part in the modern civil rights movement. Blacks from the south moved to the northern cities
in hopes of better economic opportunity and less racism. The mechanical cotton picker invented in the
1940s also encouraged the blacks to abandon sharecropping in the south. In the North, the African
Americans did not completely escape racism but experienced more freedom than before in Harlem and
Chicago's South Side where they developed communities and a common goal to protest for their rights.
Niagara Movement ANS✔✔ The Niagara Movement was started in 1906 when W.E.B DuBois and other
black leaders met on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls as no New York hotel would rent rooms to
African Americans. The movement encouraged black pride and protested civil and political equality for
African Americans.
NAACP ANS✔✔ When the Niagara Movement went away, the members formed the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. DuBois became the editor of their
newspaper The Crisis. The NAACP started an anti-lynching campaign that eventually helped reduce the
frequency of lyncchings. In addition, the NAACP filed court cases challenging the Jim Crow (segregation)
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