Chapter 22: Postwar America, 1945-1960 - Breathitt County ...

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Postwar America1945ndash1960

1944bull GI Bill enacted

1946bull Series of work strikes

plagues country

1946bull Juan Peroacuten elected

president ofArgentina

1948bull South Africa

introduces apartheid

1952bull Scientists led by Edward

Teller develop hydrogenbomb

Why It MattersAfter World War II the country enjoyed a period of economic prosperity Many more Americans

could now aspire to a middle-class lifestyle with a house in the suburbs and more leisure timeTelevision became a favorite form of entertainment This general prosperity however did not

extend to many Hispanics African Americans Native Americans or people in Appalachia

The Impact TodayThe effects of this era can still be seen

bull The middle class represents a large segment of the American populationbull Television is a popular form of entertainment for many Americans

The American Republic Since 1877 Video The Chapter 22 video ldquoAmerica Takes to the Roadsrdquo describes the cultural impact of the automobile and its importance to the growing baby boom generation

1947bull Levittown

constructionbegins

1948bull Truman elected

president

1944 1948 1952

Truman1945ndash1953

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1956bull Elvis Presley

appears on TheEd Sullivan Show

bull Federal HighwayAct passed

1958bull Galbraithrsquos The Affluent

Society published

1954bull Gamal Abdel

Nasser takespower in Egypt

1956bull Suez Canal

crisis erupts

These confident newlyweds capture the prosperous

attitude of postwar America

1955bull Salk polio vaccine

becomes widelyavailable

1953bull Lucille Ball gives birth

in real life and on hertelevision show

1957bull Estimated 40 million television

sets in use in United States

1957bull USSR launches

Sputnik I andSputnik II satellites

1956 1960

Eisenhower1953ndash1961

HISTORY

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1944Congress passesGI Bill

686 CHAPTER 22 Postwar America

1947 1953

Return to a Peacetime EconomyAfter the war many Americans feared the return to a peacetime economy They wor-

ried that after military production halted and millions of former soldiers glutted thelabor market unemployment and recession might sweep the country

Despite such worries the economy continued to grow after the war as increased con-sumer spending helped ward off a recession After 17 years of economic depression andwartime shortages Americans rushed out to buy the luxury goods they had long desired

Truman andEisenhower

1950

1946Strikes take placeacross the country

1948Harry S Truman winspresidential election

1952Dwight D Eisenhower winspresidential election

1944

Army fatigues and college diploma

Main Idea After World War II the Truman andEisenhower administrations set out tohelp the nation adjust to peacetime

Key Terms and NamesGI Bill closed shop right-to-work lawunion shop featherbedding ldquoDo-NothingCongressrdquo Fair Deal dynamic conservatism Federal Highway Act

Reading StrategyCategorizing As you read about theTruman and Eisenhower administrationscomplete a graphic organizer similar tothe one below by listing the characteris-tics of the postwar economy of the UnitedStates

Reading Objectivesbull Explain the Truman administrationrsquos

efforts on the domestic front bull Describe President Eisenhowerrsquos

domestic agenda

Section ThemeEconomic Factors Following World War II the federal government supportedprograms that helped the economy makethe transition to peacetime production

Characteristicsof a Postwar Economy

As World War II ended Robert Eubanks was worried as he prepared for his dischargefrom the army He had joined the army because as an African American it was hard for himto find a job that paid well Then he heard about something known as the GI Bill a govern-ment program that paid veteransrsquo tuition for college and provided a living allowance

Eubanks took advantage of the program and enrolled at the Illinois Institute ofTechnology He earned three degrees on the GI Bill and eventually became a professor at theUniversity of Illinois

Years later Eubanks recalled how his life was changed by the bill ldquoItrsquos very hard to explainhow things were during the 1940sldquo he said ldquoThe restrictions on blacks then were rough TheGI Bill gave me my start on being a professional instead of a stock clerkrdquo

mdashadapted from When Dreams Came True

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The Servicemenrsquos Readjustment Act popularlycalled the GI Bill further boosted the economy Theact provided generous loans to veterans to help themestablish businesses buy homes and attend college

Inflation and Strikes The postwar economy wasnot without its problems A greater demand forgoods led to higher prices and this rising inflationsoon triggered labor unrest As the cost of living roseworkers across the country went on strike for betterpay Work stoppages soon affected the automobileelectrical steel and mining industries

Afraid that the nationrsquos energy supply would bedrastically reduced because of the striking minersPresident Truman forced the miners to return towork after one strike that had lasted over a monthTruman ordered government seizure of the mineswhile pressuring mine owners to grant the unionmost of its demands The president also halted astrike that shut down the nationrsquos railroads by threat-ening to draft the striking workers into the army

Republican Victory Labor unrest and high pricesprompted many Americans to call for a change TheRepublicans seized upon these sentiments during the1946 congressional elections winning control of bothhouses of Congress for the first time since 1930

Disgusted with the rash of strikes that was cripplingthe nation the new conservative Congress quickly setout to curb the power of organized labor Legislatorsproposed a measure known as the Taft-Hartley Actwhich outlawed the closed shop or the practice offorcing business owners to hire only union membersUnder the law states could pass right-to-work lawswhich outlawed union shops (shops in which newworkers were required to join the union) The measurealso prohibited featherbedding the practice of limit-ing work output in order to create more jobsFurthermore the bill forbade unions from using theirmoney to support political campaigns When the billreached Truman however he vetoed it arguing

ldquo [It would] reverse the basic direction of ournational labor policy inject the government into pri-vate economic affairs on an unprecedented scale andconflict with important principles of our democraticsociety Its provisions would cause more strikes notfewerrdquo

mdashquoted in The Growth of the American Republic

The presidentrsquos concerns did little to swayCongress which passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947over Trumanrsquos veto Its supporters claimed the law

held irresponsible unions incheck just as the Wagner Actof 1935 had restrained anti-union activities and employ-ers Labor leaders called theact a ldquoslave laborrdquo law andinsisted that it erased manyof the gains that unions hadmade since 1933

Explaining Why did Truman

veto the Taft-Hartley Act

Trumanrsquos Domestic Program The Democratic Partyrsquos loss of members in the 1946

elections did not dampen President Trumanrsquos spiritsor his plans Shortly after taking office Truman hadproposed a series of domestic measures that sought tocontinue the work done as part of Franklin RooseveltrsquosNew Deal During his tenure in office Truman workedto push this agenda through Congress

Trumanrsquos Legislative Agenda Trumanrsquos proposalsincluded the expansion of Social Security benefitsthe raising of the legal minimum wage from 40cent to75cent an hour a program to ensure full employmentthrough aggressive use of federal spending andinvestment public housing and slum clearance long-range environmental and public works planningand a system of national health insurance

Truman also boldly asked Congress in February1948 to pass a broad civil rights bill that would

Reading Check

The GI Bill African American soldiers review the benefits of the GI Bill which

included loans to attend college and to buy homes

CHAPTER 22 Postwar America 687

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and click on StudentWeb ActivitiesmdashChapter 22 for anactivity on postwarAmerica

HISTORY

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protect African Americansrsquo right to vote abolish polltaxes and make lynching a federal crime He alsoissued an executive order barring discrimination infederal employment and he ended segregation in thearmed forces

Most of Trumanrsquos legislative efforts however metwith little success as a coalition of Republicans andconservative Southern Democrats defeated many ofhis proposals While these defeats angered Trumanthe president soon had to worry about other matters

The Election of 1948 As the presidential election of1948 approached most observers gave Truman littlechance of winning Some Americans still believedthat he lacked the stature for the job and they viewedhis administration as weak and inept

Divisions within the Democratic Party alsoseemed to spell disaster for Truman At theDemocratic Convention that summer two factionsabandoned the party altogether Reacting angrily toTrumanrsquos support of civil rights a group of SouthernDemocrats formed the Statesrsquo Rights or DixiecratParty and nominated South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond for president At the same timethe partyrsquos more liberal members were frustrated byTrumanrsquos ineffective domestic policies and critical ofhis anti-Soviet foreign policy They formed a newProgressive Party with Henry A Wallace as theirpresidential candidate In addition the presidentrsquosRepublican opponent was New York governorThomas Dewey a dignified and popular candidatewho seemed unbeatable After polling 50 politicalwriters Newsweek magazine declared three weeksbefore the election ldquoThe landslide for Dewey willsweep the countryrdquo

Perhaps the only one who gave Truman a chanceto win was Truman himself ldquoI know every one ofthose 50 fellowsrdquo he declared about the writerspolled in Newsweek ldquoThere isnrsquot one of them hasenough sense to pound sand in a rat holerdquo Ignoringthe polls the feisty president poured his efforts intoan energetic campaign He traveled more than 20000miles by train and made more than 350 speechesAlong the way Truman attacked the majorityRepublican Congress as ldquodo-nothing good-for-nothingrdquo for refusing to enact his legislative agenda

Trumanrsquos attacks on the ldquoDo-Nothing Congressrdquodid not mention that both he and Congress had beenvery busy dealing with foreign policy mattersCongress had passed the Truman Doctrinersquos aid pro-gram to Greece and Turkey as well as the MarshallPlan It had also created the Department of Defenseand the CIA and established the Joint Chiefs of Staffas a permanent organization The 80th Congresstherefore did not ldquodo nothingrdquo as Truman chargedbut its accomplishments were in areas that did notaffect most Americans directly As a result Trumanrsquoscharges began to stick and to the surprise of almosteveryone his efforts paid off

With a great deal of support from laborers AfricanAmericans and farmers Truman won a narrow butstunning victory over Dewey Perhaps just as remark-able as the presidentrsquos victory was the resurgence ofthe Democratic Party When the dust had clearedafter Election Day Democrats had regained control ofboth houses of Congress

GOVERNMENT

The Fair Deal Trumanrsquos State of the Union messageto the new Congress repeated the domestic agendahe had put forth previously ldquoEvery segment of ourpopulation and every individualrdquo he declared ldquohasa right to expect from government a fair dealrdquoWhether intentional or not the president had coineda namemdashthe Fair Dealmdashto set his program apartfrom the New Deal

The 81st Congress did not completely embraceTrumanrsquos Fair Deal Legislators did raise the legalminimum wage to 75cent an hour They also approvedan important expansion of the Social Security systemincreasing benefits by 77 percent and extending themto 10 million additional people Congress also passedthe National Housing Act of 1949 which providedfor the construction of more than 800000 units oflow-income housing accompanied by long-term rentsubsidies

Congress refused however to pass national healthinsurance or to provide subsidies for farmers or

African Americans Rally for Truman During the 1948 election President

Truman spoke at many rallies similar to this one in New York City What legisla-tive proposals by President Truman built African American political support

History

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federal aid for schools In addition legislators opposedTrumanrsquos efforts to enact civil rights legislation

Describing What was the impact of

the election of 1948

The Eisenhower Years In 1950 the United States went to war in Korea

The war consumed the nationrsquos attention andresources and basically ended Trumanrsquos Fair DealBy 1952 with the war a bloody stalemate and hisapproval rating dropping quickly Truman declinedto run again for the presidency With no Democraticincumbent to face Republicans pinned their hopesof regaining the White House on a popular WorldWar II hero

The Election of 1952 Dwight Eisenhower decidedto run as the Republican nominee for president in1952 His running mate was a young Californiasenator Richard Nixon The Democrats nominatedIllinois governor Adlai Stevenson a witty and elo-quent speaker who had the support of leading liber-als and organized labor

The Republicans adopted the slogan ldquoItrsquos time fora changerdquo The warm and friendly Eisenhower

known as ldquoIkerdquo promised to end the war in Korea ldquoIlike Ikerdquo became the Republican rallying cry

Eisenhowerrsquos campaign soon came under fire asreports surfaced that Richard Nixon had received giftsfrom California business leaders totaling $18000 whilehe was a senator For a while it looked as if Nixonmight be dropped from the ticket In a nationwidespeech broadcast on radio and television Nixoninsisted the funds had been used for legitimate politicalpurposes He did admit that his family had kept onegift a cocker spaniel puppy named ldquoCheckersrdquo Hedeclared ldquoThe kids love the dog [and] regardlessabout what they say about it wersquore going to keep itrdquoThis so-called ldquoCheckers speechrdquo won praise frommuch of the public and kept Nixon on the ticket

Eisenhower won the election by a landslide carry-ing the Electoral College 442 votes to 89 TheRepublicans also gained an eight-seat majority in theHouse while the Senate became evenly dividedbetween Democrats and Republicans

Ike as President President Eisenhower had twofavorite phrases ldquoMiddle of the roadrdquo described hispolitical beliefs which fell midway between conser-vative and liberal He also referred to the notion ofldquodynamic conservatismrdquo which meant balancingeconomic conservatism with some activism

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The Election of 1948A victorious Truman holds a paper thatincorrectly predicted a Dewey victory

Republican

Statesacute Rights

Progressive

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CandidateElectoral

VotePopular

VotePolitical

Party

Dewey

Thurmond

Wallace

Presidential Election 1948

Truman 303 24179345 Democrat1 Interpreting Maps How many electoral votes did

President Truman receive2 Applying Geography Skills Where did Strom

Thurmond enjoy strong political support

MotionIn

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Eisenhower wasted little time in showing hisconservative side The new presidentrsquos cabinetappointments included several business leadersUnder their guidance Eisenhower ended govern-ment price and rent controls which many conser-vatives had viewed as unnecessary federal controlover the business community The Eisenhoweradministration viewed business growth as vital tothe nation The presidentrsquos secretary of defense for-merly the president of General Motors declared tothe Senate that ldquowhat is good for our country isgood for General Motors and vice versardquo

Eisenhowerrsquos conservatism showed itself inother ways as well In an attempt to curb the federalbudget the president vetoed a school constructionbill and agreed to slash government aid to publichousing Along with these cuts he supported somemodest tax reductions

Eisenhower also targeted the federal govern-mentrsquos continuing aid to businesses or what hetermed ldquocreeping socialismrdquo Shortly after takingoffice the president abolished the ReconstructionFinance Corporation (RFC) which since 1932 hadlent money to banks railroads and other largeinstitutions in financial trouble AnotherDepression-era agency the Tennessee ValleyAuthority (TVA) also came under Eisenhowerrsquoseconomic scrutiny During his presidency appro-

priations for the TVA fell from$185 million to $12 million

In some areas President Eisenhower took an activistrole For example he advocated the passage of twolarge government projects During the 1950s as thenumber of Americans who owned cars increased sotoo did the need for greater and more efficient travelroutes In 1956 Congress responded to this growingneed by passing the Federal Highway Act the largestpublic works program in American history The actappropriated $25 billion for a 10-year effort to constructmore than 40000 miles (64400 km) of interstate high-ways Congress also authorized construction of theGreat Lakes-St Lawrence Seaway to connect the GreatLakes with the Atlantic Ocean through a series of lockson the St Lawrence River Three previous presidentshad been unable to reach agreements with Canada tobuild this waterway to aid international shippingThrough Eisenhowerrsquos efforts the two nations finallyagreed on a plan to complete the project

Extending the New Deal Although PresidentEisenhower cut federal spending and worked to limitthe federal governmentrsquos role in the nationrsquos econ-omy he also agreed to extend the Social Security system to an additional 10 million people He also extended unemployment compensation to an additional 4 million citizens and agreed to increase

Interstate HighwaysAs Cold War tensions rose American

officials realized that the ability to movetroops and military equipment acrossthe country quickly and efficientlycould very well determine whetherthe nation could survive attackSince the haphazard system of two-lane highways that crisscrossedAmerica could not handle such a task theEisenhower administration proposed a41000-mile network of multi-lane inter-state highways The interstate systemchanged American life in several signifi-cant ways

More Efficient Distribution of Goods The interstates made the distribution of goods faster and moreefficient In the 1990s trucks moved more than 6 billion tons ofgoods each year nearly half of all commercial transports in theUnited States Most of these trucks used interstates

The Interstate System 2000


Interstatehighways (free)Interstatehighways (toll)

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The interstate highways drastically decreased the time it took to travelacross the continent In 1919 a young Dwight D Eisenhower joined 294other members of the army to travel the 2800 miles from Washington DCto San Francisco They made the trip in 62 days averaging 5 miles perhour During World War II General Eisenhower was impressed with themodern design of Germanyrsquos freeway system the Autobahn ldquoThe oldconvoyrdquo he said ldquohad started me thinking about good two-lane highwaysbut Germany had made me see the wisdom of broader ribbons across thelandrdquo Wide lanes and controlled entrance and exit points allowed cars totravel at much higher speeds Using the interstate highways Eisenhowerrsquostrip would now take 41frasl2 days

2800 mile trip took 62 days in 1919

2800 mile trip takes 4 12 days today

Travel TimesWashington DCto San Francisco

Suburbanization and Urban SprawlThe interstate system contributed to the growth of suburbancommunities and the eventual geographic spread of center-less cities Using the interstates suburbanites could com-mute to their jobs miles away

A New Road Culture The interstates created an automobile society In 1997 $687 bil-lion were spent on private automobiles compared to $228 billionfor public transit Additionally chains of fast food restaurants andmotels replaced independent operators across the country

Writing About History


Checking for Understanding

1 Define closed shop right-to-work lawunion shop featherbedding dynamicconservatism

2 Identify GI Bill ldquoDo-NothingCongressrdquo Fair Deal Federal HighwayAct

Reviewing Themes

3 Economic Factors How did PresidentEisenhower aid international shippingduring his administration

Critical Thinking

4 Interpreting In what ways did the Taft-Hartley Act hurt labor unions

5 Categorizing Use a graphic organizerto compare the agendas of the Trumanand Eisenhower administrations

Analyzing Visuals

6 Analyzing Maps Study the map onpage 689 Which parts of the countrydid Dewey win Why do you think he did so well in these areas

Agendas

Truman Eisenhower7 Persuasive Writing Take on the role

of a member of Congress during theTruman administration Write a speechin which you try to persuade the 81stCongress to either pass or defeatTrumanrsquos Fair Deal measures

the minimum hourly wage from 75cent to $1 and to con-tinue to provide some government aid to farmers

By the time Eisenhower ran for a second term in1956mdasha race he won easilymdashthe nation had success-fully completed the transition from a wartime to apeacetime economy The battles between liberals andconservatives over whether to continue New Deal

policies would continue In the meantime howevermost Americans focused their energy on enjoyingwhat had become a decade of tremendous prosperity

Evaluating What conservative

and activist measures did Eisenhower take during his

administration

Reading Check

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and click on Study CentralTMtarvol2glencoecom

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In the summer of 1951 Kemmons Wilson traveled with his family from MemphisTennessee to Washington DC He noticed that some of the motels they stayed in were ter-rible Each added a $2 charge per child to the standard room price and many were locatedfar from restaurants forcing travelers back into their cars to search for meals

Frustrated Wilson decided to build a motel chain that would provide interstate travel-ers with comfortable lodgings They would be located near good family restaurants andallow kids to stay free Together with a group of investors Wilson began building theHoliday Inn motel chain Families loved his motels and soon Holiday Inns were sproutingup all over the country

Wilson said he never doubted the success of his endeavor ldquoI like to think that Irsquomso normal that anything I like everybody else is going to like toordquo he said ldquoTheidea that my instincts are out of line just doesnrsquot occur to merdquo His prosperity mirroreda growing affluence in the nation This time of prosperity made the shortages of theGreat Depression and World War II a distant memory

mdashadapted from The Fifties

1947Construction ofLevittown begins


American Abundance Wilsonrsquos motel chain proved successful largely because the 1950s was a decade of

incredible prosperity In 1958 economist John Kenneth Galbraith published TheAffluent Society in which he claimed that the nationrsquos postwar prosperity was a newphenomenon In the past Galbraith said all societies had an ldquoeconomy of scarcityrdquo

The Affluent Society

Kemmons Wilsonon magazine cover

1946 1954

1950David Riesmanrsquos TheLonely Crowd published

1955Salk polio vaccinebecomes widely available

1958John Kenneth Galbraithrsquos TheAffluent Society published

1950 1958

Main Idea The postwar economic boom broughtgreat changes to society including theways many Americans worked and lived

Key Terms and NamesJohn Kenneth Galbraith white-collarblue-collar multinational corporationfranchise David Riesman Levittownbaby boom Jonas Salk

Reading StrategySequencing As you read aboutAmerican society in the 1950s completea time line similar to the one below byrecording the scientific and technologicalbreakthroughs of the time

Reading Objectives bull Explain the reasons for and the effects

of the nationrsquos economic boombull Describe changes to the American fam-

ily that took place during the 1950s

Section ThemeContinuity and Change Americansbecame avid consumers in the atmos-phere of postwar abundance

1946 1958

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meaning that a lack of resources and overpopula-tion had limited economic productivity Now theUnited States and a few other industrializednations had created what Galbraith called anldquoeconomy of abundancerdquo New business tech-niques and improved technology enabled thesenations to produce an abundance of goods andservices for their peoplemdashall of which allowedmany of them to enjoy a standard of living neverbefore thought possible

The Spread of Wealth Some critics accusedGalbraith of overstating the situation but the factsand figures seemed to support his theory Between1940 and 1960 the average income of American fam-ilies roughly tripled Americans in all income brack-etsmdashpoor middle-class and wealthymdashexperiencedthis rapid rise in income The dramatic rise in homeownership also showed that the income of averagefamilies had risen significantly Between 1940 and1960 the number of Americans owning their ownhomes rose from about 43 to about 62 percent

Accompanying the countryrsquos economic growthwere dramatic changes in work environmentsMechanization in farms and factories meant that fewerfarmers and laborers were needed to provide the pub-lic with food and goods As a result more Americansbegan working in what are called white-collar jobssuch as those in sales and management In 1956 forthe first time white-collar workers outnumberedblue-collar workers or people who perform physicallabor in industry

Multinationals and Franchises Many white-collaremployees worked for large corporations As thesebusinesses competed with each other some expandedoverseas These multinational corporations locatedthemselves closer to important raw materials andbenefited from a cheaper labor pool which madethem more competitive

The 1950s also witnessed the rise of franchises inwhich a person owns and runs one or several storesof a chain operation Because many business leadersbelieved that consumers valued dependability andfamiliarity the owners of chain operations oftendemanded that their franchises present a uniformlook and style

The Organization Man Like franchise ownersmany corporate leaders also expected their employeesto conform to company standards In general corpora-tions did not desire free-thinking individuals or peoplewho might speak out or criticize the company

Some social observers recognized this phenomenonand disapproved of it In his 1950 book The LonelyCrowd sociologist David Riesman argued that thisconformity was changing people Formerly heclaimed people were ldquoinner-directedrdquo judging them-selves on the basis of their own values and the esteemof their families Now however people were becom-ing ldquoother-directedrdquo concerning themselves with win-ning the approval of the corporation or community

In his 1956 book The Organization Man writerWilliam H Whyte Jr assailed the similarity manybusiness organizations cultivated in order to keep anyindividual from dominating ldquoIn group doctrinerdquoWhyte wrote ldquothe strong personality is viewed withoverwhelming suspicionrdquo and the person with ideasis considered ldquoa threatrdquo

The New Consumerism The conformity of the1950s included peoplersquos desires to own the same newproducts as their neighbors With more disposableincome Americans bought more luxury items such asrefrigerators washing machines vacuum cleanersand air conditioners Americans also bought a varietyof labor-saving machines As House and Garden maga-zine boasted in a 1954 article coffeemakers blendersand lawn trimmers ldquo[replaced] the talents of caretakergardener cook [and] maidrdquo


The Organization Man In the 1950s more and more people worked

in white-collar corporate jobs Some social critics worried that this develop-

ment emphasized conformity In what other ways did society encouragepeople to conform

Analyzing Political Cartoons

ldquoHe never wastes a minute JPmdashthatrsquos his lunchrdquo

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Accompanying the nationrsquos spending spree was thegrowth of more sophisticated advertising Advertisingbecame the fastest-growing industry in the UnitedStates as manufacturers employed new marketingtechniques to sell their products These techniqueswere carefully planned to whet the consumerrsquosappetite The purpose of these advertisers was to influ-ence choices among brands of goods that were essen-tially the same According to the elaborate advertisingcampaigns of the time a freezer became a promise ofplenty a second car became a symbol of status and amouthwash became the key to immediate success

The Growth of Suburbia Advertisers targetedtheir ads to consumers who had money to spendMany of these consumers lived in the nationrsquos grow-ing suburbs that grew up around cities

Levittown New York was one of the earliest ofthe new suburbs The driving force behind thisplanned residential community was Bill Levitt whomass-produced hundreds of simple and similar-looking homes in a potato field 10 miles east of NewYork City Between 1947 and 1951 thousands offamilies rushed to buy the inexpensive homes and

soon other communities similar to Levittownsprang up throughout the United States

Suburbs became increasingly popular throughoutthe 1950s accounting for about 85 percent of newhome construction The number of suburban dwellersdoubled while the population of cities themselvesrose only 10 percent Reasons for the rapid growth ofsuburbia varied Some people wanted to escape thecrime and congestion of city neighborhoods Othersviewed life in the suburbs as a move up to a better lifefor themselves and their children In contrast to citylife suburbia offered a more picturesque environ-ment As developers in earlier periods had done thedevelopers of the 1950s attracted home buyers withpromises of fresh air green lawns and trees

Affordability became a key factor in attractinghome buyers to the suburbs Because the GI Billoffered low-interest loans new housing was moreaffordable during the postwar period than at anyother time in American history Equally attractivewas the governmentrsquos offer of income tax deductionsfor home mortgage interest payments and propertytaxes For millions of Americans the suburbs came tosymbolize the American dream They owned theirhomes sent their children to good schools lived insafe communities and enjoyed economic security

Nevertheless some social commentators such asarchitect Lewis Mumford and writer John Keatsviewed such plain and identical-looking communitiesas another sign of conformity ldquoYou too can find a boxof your ownrdquo wrote Keats ldquoinhabited by peoplewhose age income number of children problemshabits conversations dress possessions perhapseven blood types are almost precisely like yoursrdquo

Interpreting What were two causes

and effects of the economic boom of the 1950s

The 1950s Family In addition to all the other transformations taking

place in the nation during the 1950s the Americanfamily also was changing Across the country manyfamilies grew larger and more married womenentered the workforce

The Baby Boom The American birthrate explodedafter World War II From 1945 to 1961 a period knownas the baby boom more than 65 million children wereborn in the United States At the height of the babyboom a child was born every seven seconds

Several factors contributed to the baby boom Firstyoung couples who had delayed marriage during

Reading Check


The Baby Boom

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1 Interpreting Graphs When did therapid rise in population shown herereach its peak

2 Analyzing Cause and Effect Whatfactors contributed to this rapid rise inbirths

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World War II and the Korean War could now marrybuy homes and begin their families In addition thegovernment encouraged the growth of families byoffering generous GI benefits for home purchasesFinally on television and in magazines popular cul-ture celebrated pregnancy parenthood and largefamilies

Women in the Fifties Many women focused ontheir traditional role of homemaker during the 1950sEven though 8 million American women had gone towork during the war the new postwar emphasis onhaving babies and establishing families now discour-aged women from seeking employment ManyAmericans assumed that a good mother should stayhome to take care of her children

ldquoLetrsquos face it girlsrdquo declared one female writer inBetter Homes and Gardens in April 1955 ldquothat wonder-ful guy in your housemdashand in minemdashis buildingyour house your happiness and the opportunitiesthat will come to your childrenrdquo The magazineadvised stay-at-home wives to ldquoset their sights on ahappy home a host of friends and a bright futurethrough success in HIS jobrdquo

Despite the popular emphasis on homemakinghowever the number of women who held jobs out-side the home actually increased during the 1950sMost women who went to work did so in order tohelp their families maintain their comfortablelifestyles By 1960 nearly one-third of all marriedwomen were part of the paid workforce

Evaluating What were three factors

that contributed to the baby boom

Technological Breakthroughs As the United States underwent many social

changes during the postwar era the nation also wit-nessed several important scientific advances Inmedicine space exploration and electronics Americanscientists broke new ground during the 1950s

Advances in Electronics The electronics industrymade rapid advances after World War II In 1947three American physicistsmdashJohn Bardeen Walter HBrattain and William Shockleymdashdeveloped thetransistor a tiny device that generated electric sig-nals and made it possible to miniaturize radios andcalculators

The age of computers also dawned in the postwarera In 1946 scientists working under a US Armycontract developed one of the nationrsquos earliest

computersmdashknown as ENIAC (Electronic NumericalIntegrator and Computer)mdashto make military calcula-tions Several years later a newer model called UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) wouldhandle business data and launch the computer revo-lution The computer along with changes andimprovements in communication and transportationsystems allowed many Americans to work morequickly and efficiently As a result families in the1950s had more free time and new forms of leisureactivity became popular

Medical Miracles The medical breakthroughs ofthe 1950s included the development of powerfulantibiotics to fight infection the introduction of newdrugs to combat arthritis diabetes cancer and heart

Reading Check

The Incredible Shrinking ComputerPast The First ComputerENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) wasthe first large-scale digital computer Operating from 1946to 1955 its primary function was to provide data for themilitary It weighed more than 30 tons and took up 1800square feetmdashmore than some houses

Present Modern MarvelsModern computers are very small andvery fast Many personal comput-ers now fit easily in a briefcase orbackpack They are also moreefficient While the ENIAC couldperform approximately 5000calculations per second thetypical home computerperforms about 70million calculationsper secondmdash14000times faster

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disease and groundbreaking advances in surgicaltechniques Polio however continued to baffle themedical profession

Periodic polio epidemics had been occurring inthe United States since 1916 The disease had evenstruck the young Franklin Roosevelt and forced himto use a wheelchair In the 1940s and 1950s howeverpolio struck the nation in epidemic proportionsOfficially known as infantile paralysis because itgenerally targeted the young the disease brought awave of terror to the country No one knew where orwhen polio would strike but an epidemic broke outin some area of the country each summer cripplingand killing its victims People watched helplesslywhile neighbors fell sick Many died and those whodid not were often confined to iron lungsmdashlargemetal tanks with pumps that helped patientsbreathe If they eventually recovered they wereoften paralyzed for the rest of their lives

Because no one knew what caused the disease par-ents searched for ways to safeguard their families eachsummer Some sent their children to the country toavoid excessive contact with others Public swimmingpools and beaches were closed Parks and play-grounds across the country stood desertedNevertheless the disease continued to strike In 1952 arecord 58000 new cases were reported

Finally a research scientist named Jonas Salkdeveloped an injectable vaccine that preventedpolio Salk first tested the vaccine on himself hiswife and his three sons It was then tested on 2 mil-lion schoolchildren In 1955 the vaccine was declaredsafe and effective and became available to the gen-eral public The results were spectacular New casesof polio fell to 5700 in 1958 and then to 3277 in 1960American scientist Albert Sabin then developed anoral vaccine for polio Because it was safer and moreconvenient than Salkrsquos injection vaccine the Sabinvaccine became the most common form of treatmentagainst the disease In the years to come the threatof polio would almost completely disappear

Conquering Space After the Soviet Union launchedSputnik the worldrsquos first space satellite in October1957 the United States hastened to catch up with its


Polio Epidemic In the 1940s and 1950s Americans were very concerned

about the wave of polio cases that struck so many young children Here devices

known as iron lungs help polio patients breathe How did people try to safe-guard against the spread of the disease

History

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1 Define white-collar blue-collar multi-national corporation franchise babyboom

2 Identify John Kenneth Galbraith DavidRiesman Levittown Jonas Salk

3 Describe how and why the suburbsbecame popular places to live

Reviewing Themes

4 Continuity and Change How was theaffluent society of the United States inthe 1950s different from previousdecades

Critical Thinking

5 Interpreting What caused the advertis-ing industry boom in the 1950s

6 Organizing Use a graphic organizersimilar to the one below to list thecauses and effects of the economicboom of the 1950s

Analyzing Visuals

7 Analyzing Photographs Study thephotograph on page 696 of childrensuffering from polio What do you thinkit was like to live in such an environ-ment Do Americans today face similarmedical fears

Boom

EffectsCauses8 Descriptive Writing Write an article

for a magazine such as Better Homesand Gardens describing changes theAmerican family underwent during the1950s

Cold War rival Less than fourmonths later on January 31 1958the United States launched its ownsatellite from Cape CanaveralFlorida Reporter Milton Brackerdescribed the jubilant scene

ldquoAs the firing command neared adeadly silence fell on those who werewatching In the glare of the search-lights a stream of liquid oxygen couldbe seen venting like a lavender cloudfrom the side of the seventy-footrocket At fourteen and one-halfseconds after time zero after thepriming fuel had ignited almost invisi-bly the main stage engine came tolife with an immeasurable thrust offlame in all directions With thou-sands of eyes following it the rocketdug into the night and accelerated asits sound loudened Spectators onnear-by beaches pointed and cranedtheir necks and cried lsquoThere it isrsquo andbegan to cheerrdquo

mdashquoted in Voices from Americarsquos Past

Meanwhile engineers were building smootherand faster commercial planes Poet Carl Sandburgwrote about taking the first American jet flight fromNew York to Los Angeles The trip took only five anda half hours ldquoYou search for words to describe thespeed of this flightrdquo wrote an amazed Sandburg

ldquoYou are whisked from an ocean on one side ofthe continent to an ocean on the opposite side in lesstime than it takes the sun to trace a 90-degree arcacross the skyrdquo

Examining What medical and tech-

nological advances met specific needs in the late 1940s and

1950s

Reading Check

i n H i s t o r yDr Jonas Salk 1914ndash1995

The man who developed the vaccinefor one of the nationrsquos most feared dis-eases almost did not go into medicineJonas Salk enrolled in college as a pre-law student but soon changed his mindldquoMy mother didnrsquot think I would makea very good lawyerrdquo Salk said ldquoproba-bly because I could never win an argu-ment with herrdquo Salk switched his majorto premed and went on to become aresearch scientist

Salk initially directed the search for acure to the dreaded ailment of polio atthe University of Pittsburghrsquos VirusResearch Laboratory Every so oftenSalk would make rounds in the over-crowded polio wards of nearbyMunicipal Hospital where nursesdescribed their feelings of pity andhelpless rage as paralyzed childrencried for water As one nurse said ldquoI

can remember how the staff used to kidDr Salkmdashkidding in earnestmdashtellinghim to hurry up and do somethingrdquo

Salk became famous for his break-through vaccine The shy doctor how-ever did not desire fame About hisbecoming a celebrity Salk observedthat it was ldquoa transitory thing and youwait till it blows over Eventually peoplewill start thinking lsquoThat poor guyrsquo andleave me alone Then Irsquoll be able to getback to my laboratoryrdquo



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1955The quiz show The $64000Question debuts


In 1953 Lucille Ball and her real-life husband Desi Arnaz were starring in one of the mostpopular shows on American television I Love Lucy In January Ball had a babymdashboth in reallife and on her show Her pregnancy and the birth of her baby became a national event thatcaptivated her audience A pre-filmed segment of the show showed Lucy and her husbandgoing to the hospital to have the baby and the show was broadcast only a few hours after thereal birth More than two-thirds of the nationrsquos television sets tuned in an audience of around44 million viewers Far fewer people watched the next day when television broadcast a presi-dential inauguration

I Love Lucy was so popular that some people actually set up their work schedules aroundthe show Marshall Fieldrsquos which had previously held sales on the same night the show wason eventually switched its sales to a different night A sign on its shop window explainedldquoWe love Lucy too so wersquore closing on Monday nightsrdquo A relatively new medium televisionhad swept the nation by the mid-1950s

mdashadapted from Watching TV Four Decades of American Television

The New Mass Media Although regular television broadcasts had begun in the early 1940s there were few

stations and sets were expensive By the end of the 1950s however the small black-and-white-screened sets sat in living rooms across the country Televisionrsquos popularity

Popular Culture of the 1950s

1956Elvis Presley appears on the Ed SullivanShow Allen Ginsbergrsquos ldquoHowlrdquo published

195740 million television sets inuse in the United States

1958TV quiz show scandalsbegin to surface

1955 1956 1957 1958

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Main Idea During the carefree and prosperous1950s Americans turned to televisionnew forms of music cinema and litera-ture to entertain themselves

Key Terms and NamesEd Sullivan Alan Freed Elvis Presley gen-eration gap Jack Kerouac Little Richard

Reading StrategyCategorizing As you read about thepopular culture of the 1950s complete agraphic organizer similar to the onebelow comparing new forms of massmedia during the 1950s

Reading Objectives bull Explain the characteristics of the new

youth culturebull Discuss the contributions of African

Americans to 1950s culture

Section ThemeCulture and Traditions The 1950sadded such elements as rock rsquonrsquo rollmusic and sitcom television to modernculture

New Forms of Mass Media Description

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forced the other forms of mass mediamdashnamelymotion pictures and radiomdashto innovate in order tokeep their audiences

The Rise of Television Popularity During WorldWar II televisions became more affordable for con-sumers In 1946 it is estimated there were between7000 and 8000 sets in the entire United States By1957 there were 40 million television sets in use Over80 percent of households had televisions

By the late 1950s television news had become animportant vehicle for information Television advertis-ing spawned a growing market for many new prod-ucts Advertising after all provided television withthe money that allowed it to flourish As one critic con-cluded ldquoPrograms on television are simply a device tokeep the advertisements and commercials frombumping loudly togetherrdquo Televised athletic eventsgradually made professional and college sports one ofthe most prominent sources of entertainment

Comedy Action and Games Early television pro-grams fell into several main categories includingcomedy action and adventure and variety-style enter-tainment Laughter proved popular in other formats

besides the half-hour situation comedy Many of theearly television comedy shows such as those starringBob Hope and Jack Benny were adapted from popularold radio shows Benny enjoyed considerable televi-sion success with his routines of bad violin playingand stingy behavior

Television watchers in the 1950s also relishedaction shows Westerns such as Hopalong Cassidy TheLone Ranger and Gunsmoke grew quickly in popular-ity Viewers also enjoyed police programs such asDragnet a hugely successful show featuring JoeFriday and his partner hunting down a new criminaleach week

Variety shows such as Ed Sullivanrsquos Toast of theTown provided a mix of comedy opera popular songdance acrobatics and juggling Quiz shows attractedlarge audiences too after the 1955 debut of The$64000 Question In this show and its many imitatorstwo contestants tried to answer questions from sepa-rate glass-encased booths The questions storedbetween shows in a bank vault arrived at the studioat airtime in the hands of a stern-faced bank execu-tive flanked by two armed guards The contestantscompeted head-to-head with the winner returningthe following week to face a new challenger

Television programming depicted a narrow view ofAmerican culture in the 1950s Most television showsduring these years centered around a common image ofAmerican lifemdashan image that was predominantly whitemiddle-class and suburban epitomized by the popularsituation comedy The Adventures of Ozzie and HarrietSuch shows also reinforced traditional gender rolesshowing fathers working and mothers staying home toraise children and take care of the house

Westerns were also popular at the time especiallyThe Lone Ranger in which a mysterious masked manhelped people in distress The HowdyDoody Show which featuredBuffalo Bob and his freckle-facedmarionette was the first net-work kidsrsquo show to run five days a week the first tel-evision show ever broadcastin color and the first showever to air more than 1000 continuous episodes

TV Nation

Ozzie andHarriet

Tonto and theLone Ranger

Howdy Doody

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In 1956 the quiz show Twenty-One caused anuproar across the nation after Charles Van Doren ayoung assistant professor with a modest incomewon $129000 during his weeks on the program Theviewing public soon learned however that VanDoren and many of the other contestants hadreceived the answers to the questions in advanceBefore a congressional committee in 1959 Van Dorenadmitted his role in the scandal and apologized to hismany fans saying ldquoI was involved deeply involvedin a deceptionrdquo In the wake of the Twenty-One fraudmany quiz shows went off the air

Hollywood Adapts to the Times As the popular-ity of television grew movies lost viewersldquoHollywoodrsquos like Egyptrdquo lamented producer DavidSelznick in 1951 ldquoFull of crumbling pyramidsrdquoWhile the film business may not have been collaps-ing it certainly did suffer after the war Attendancedropped from 82 million in 1946 to 36 million by1950 By 1960 when some 50 million Americansowned a television one-fifth of the nationrsquos movietheaters had closed

Throughout the decade Hollywood struggledmightily to recapture its audience ldquoDonrsquot be alsquoLiving Room Captiversquordquo one industry ad pleadedldquoStep out and see a great movierdquo When contestsdoor prizes and an advertising campaign announc-ing that ldquoMovies Are Better Than Everrdquo failed tolure people out of their homes Hollywood began totry to make films more exciting Between 1952 and1954 audiences of 3-D films received special

glasses that gave the impression that a monster or aknife was lunging directly at them from off thescreen Viewers however soon tired of both theglasses and the often ridiculous plots of 3-Dmovies

Cinemascope movies shown on large panoramicscreens finally gave Hollywood a reliable lure Wide-screen spectacles like The Robe The Ten Command-ments and Around the World in 80 Days cost a greatdeal of money to produce These blockbusters how-ever made up for their cost by attracting huge audi-ences and netting large profits The movie industryalso made progress by taking the ldquoif you canrsquot beatrsquoem join rsquoemrdquo approach Hollywood eventuallybegan to film programs especially for television andalso sold old movies which could be rebroadcastcheaply to the networks

Like television the films of the fifties for the mostpart adhered to the conformity of the times Roles forsingle women who did not want families were fewand far between For example each of MarilynMonroersquos film roles featured the blond movie star asmarried soon to be married or unhappy that shewas not married

Movies with African Americans routinely por-trayed them in stereotypical roles such as maids ser-vants or sidekicks for white heroes Even whenAfrican Americans took leading roles they wereoften one-dimensional characters who rarely showedhuman emotions or characteristics African Americanactor Sidney Poitier resented having to play suchparts

ldquoThe black characters usually come out on thescreen as saints as the other-cheek-turners as peo-ple who are not really people who are so nice andgood As a matter of fact Irsquom just dying to playvillainsrdquo

mdashquoted in The Fifties The Way We Really Were

Radio Draws Them In Television also lured awayradio listeners and forced the radio industry likeHollywood to develop new ways to win back audi-ences After television took over many of radiorsquos con-cepts of comedies dramas and soap operas forexample many radio stations began to specialize inpresenting recorded music news talk showsweather public-service programming and shows forspecific audiences

As a result of this targeted programming radiostations survived and even flourished Their num-bers more than doubled between 1948 when 1680


Quick and Easy Eats Along with the televisioncame TV dinners Capitalizing on the televisionboom of the 1950s these frozen individual mealsoffered an entreacutee a side dish or two and a dessertall on an aluminum tray divided into compartments

Not everyone actually ate TV dinners in front ofthe television but the meals were popular becausethey offered convenience Noted one food industryexecutive of the time ldquoWhen Mary Smith rusheshome from work late in the afternoon she wants tobuy food that not only willlook pretty on the tablebut is something she canget ready in the half hourbefore her husbandcomes home for dinnerrdquo

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stations were broadcasting to the nation and 1957when more than 3600 stations filled the airwaves

Identifying How did the television

industry affect the US economy

The New Youth Culture While Americans of all ages embraced the new

mass media some of the nationrsquos youth rebelledagainst such a message During the 1950s a numberof young Americans turned their backs on the con-formist ideals adult society promoted Althoughthese youths were a small minority their actionsbrought them widespread attention In general theseyoung people longed for greater excitement and free-dom and they found an outlet for such feelings ofrestlessness in new and controversial styles of musicand literature

Rock rsquonrsquo Roll In the early 1950s rock rsquonrsquo rollemerged as the distinctive music of the new genera-tion In 1951 at a record store in downtown Cleveland

Ohio radio disc jockey Alan Freed noticed whiteteenagers buying African American rhythm and bluesrecords and dancing to the music in the store A weeklater Freed won permission from his station managerto play the music on the air Just as the disc jockey hadsuspected the listeners went crazy for it Soon whiteartists began making music that stemmed from theseAfrican American rhythms and sounds and a newform of music rock rsquonrsquo roll had been born

With a loud and heavy beat that made it ideal fordancing along with lyrics about romance cars andother themes that spoke to young people rock rsquonrsquo rollgrew wildly popular among the nationrsquos teensBefore long boys and girls around the country wererushing out to buy the latest hits from such artists asBuddy Holly Chuck Berry and Bill Haley and theComets In 1956 teenagers found their first rock rsquonrsquoroll hero in Elvis Presley Presley who had been bornin rural Mississippi and grown up poor in MemphisTennessee eventually claimed the title of ldquoKing ofRock rsquonrsquo Rollrdquo

While in high school Presley had learned to playguitar and sing by imitating the rhythm and blues

Reading Check


THE KING OF ROCK Elvis Presley shown here sign-ing autographs after a per-formance in Houston tookAmerican youth in the 1950sby storm Parents on the other hand were less thanthrilled with his musicmdasha blend of African American-inspired rhythm and blues and early rock rsquonrsquo rollmdashand his hip-swiveling gyrations on stage For Presleyrsquos firstappearance on The Ed SullivanShow the host insisted thatcameras show him only fromthe waist up Elvis added to hisfame by starring in a string offilms that audiences loved butcritics panned

MOMENTinHISTORY

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music he heard on the radio By 1956 Elvis had arecord deal with RCA Victor a movie contract andpublic appearances on several television shows Atfirst the popular television variety show host EdSullivan refused to invite Presley on insisting thatthe rock rsquonrsquo roll music was not fit for a family-oriented show When a competing show featuringPresley upset his own high ratings howeverSullivan relented He ended up paying Presley$50000 per performance for three appearancesmore than triple the amount he had paid any otherperformer

The dark-haired and handsome Presley owed hiswild popularity as much to his moves as to his musicDuring his performances he would gyrate his hipsand dance in other suggestive ways that shockedmany in the audience Presley himself admitted theimportance of this part of his act

ldquoIrsquom not kidding myself My voice alone is just anordinary voice What people come to see is how I useit If I stand still while Irsquom singing Irsquom dead man Imight as well go back to driving a truckrdquo

mdashquoted in Godrsquos Country America in the Fifties

Not surprisingly parentsmdashmany of whom listenedto Frank Sinatra and other more mellow and main-stream artistsmdashcondemned rock rsquonrsquo roll as loudmindless and dangerous The city council of SanAntonio Texas actually banned rock rsquonrsquo roll from thejukeboxes at public swimming pools The music thecouncil declared ldquoattracted undesirable elementsgiven to practicing their gyrations in abbreviatedbathing suitsrdquo A minister in Boston complained thatldquorock and roll inflames and excites youthrdquo

The rock rsquonrsquo roll hits that teens bought in recordnumbers united them in a world their parents didnot share Thus in the 1950s rock rsquonrsquo roll helped tocreate what became known as the generation gap orthe cultural separation between children and theirparents

The Beat Movement If rock rsquonrsquo roll helped to createa generation gap a group of mostly white artists whocalled themselves the beats highlighted a values gapin the 1950s United States The term beat may havecome from the feeling among group members ofbeing ldquobeaten downrdquo by American culture or fromjazz musicians who would say ldquoIrsquom beat right downto my socksrdquo

The beats sought to live unconventional lives asfugitives from a culture they despised Beat poetswriters and artists harshly criticized what they con-sidered the sterility and conformity of American lifethe meaninglessness of American politics and theemptiness of popular culture

In 1956 29-year-old beat poet Allen Ginsbergpublished a long poem called ldquoHowlrdquo which blastedmodern American life Another beat member JackKerouac published On the Road in 1957 AlthoughKerouacrsquos book about his freewheeling adventureswith a car thief and con artist shocked some readersthe book went on to become a classic in modernAmerican literature

Summarizing How did rock rsquonrsquo roll

help create the generation gap

African American Entertainers While artists such as Jack Kerouac rejected

American culture African American entertainersstruggled to find acceptance in a country that oftentreated them as second-class citizens With a fewnotable exceptions television tended to shut outAfrican Americans In 1956 NBC gave a popularAfrican American singer named Nat King Cole hisown 15-minute musical variety show In 1958 after64 episodes NBC canceled the show after failing tosecure a national sponsor for a show hosted by anAfrican American

African American rock rsquonrsquo roll singers had moreluck gaining acceptance The talented AfricanAmerican singers and groups who recorded hitsongs in the fifties included Chuck Berry RayCharles Little Richard and the Drifters The latteryears of the 1950s also saw the rise of severalAfrican American womenrsquos groups including the

Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

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Reading Check




1 Define generation gap2 Identify Ed Sullivan Alan Freed Elvis

Presley Jack Kerouac Little Richard3 Explain what happened to motion pic-

tures and radio when television becamepopular

Reviewing Themes

4 Culture and Traditions What roles didAfrican Americans play in television androck rsquonrsquo roll

Critical Thinking

5 Comparing How did the themes of tel-evision shows of the 1950s differ fromthe themes of the literature of the beatmovement

6 Organizing Use a graphic organizersimilar to the one below to list thestyles of music and literature that madeup the new youth culture of the 1950s

Analyzing Visuals

7 Analyzing Photographs Study thephotographs on pages 698 and 699Many people have criticized these tele-vision programs for presenting a one-sided view of American life Do youagree with this criticism Why or whynot

New YouthCulture 8 Expository Writing Imagine you are a

beat writer in the 1950s Explain to yourreaders how the themes you writeabout are universal themes that couldapply to everyone

Crystals the Chiffons the Shirelles and theRonettes With their catchy popular sound thesegroups became the musical ancestors of the famouslate 1960s groups Martha and the Vandellas andthe Supremes

Over time the music of the early rock rsquonrsquo roll artistshad a profound influence on music throughout theworld Little Richard and Chuck Berry for exampleprovided inspiration for the Beatles whose musicswept Britain and the world in the 1960s Elvisrsquos

music transformed generations of rock rsquonrsquo roll bandsthat were to follow him and other pioneers of rock

Despite the innovations in music and the eco-nomic boom of the 1950s not all Americans were partof the affluent society For much of the countryrsquosminorities and rural poor the American dreamremained well out of reach

Evaluating What impact did

American rock rsquonrsquo roll artists have on the rest of the world

Fats Domino

Little Richard

African American Entertainers Rhythm and blues music provided the

roots of the 1950s rock rsquonrsquo roll sound Did African American rock rsquonrsquo rollartists experience the same acceptance as artists like Elvis Presley Whyor why not

History



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N O T E B O O K

V E R B A T I MV E R B A T I M

ProfileProfile

THE DUCKTAILBanned in several Massachusetts schools in 1957

COLLIERrsquoSThe respected magazine loses circulation publishes its final edition on January 4 1957

LEONARDO DA VINCIrsquoS

THE LAST SUPPERNow everyone can paint their own copy to hang in their homes

W I N N E R S amp L O S E R SW I N N E R S amp L O S E R S

The Ducktail

JAMES DEAN had a brief but spectacular career as a film star His role in Rebel Without a Cause made him an icon for American youth in the mid-50s In 1955 Dean was killed in a car crash He was 24

ldquoI guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as anyother young man my age Therefore when I do play a youth I try to imitate life Rebel Without a Cause deals with the problems of modern youth If you want the kids to come and see the pictureyoursquove got to try to reach them on their own grounds If a picture is psychologically motivated if there is truth in the relationships in it then I think that picture will do goodrdquo

mdashfrom an interview for Rebel Without a Cause

ldquoIt will make a wonderful place

for the children to play in and it

will be a good storehouse toordquoMRS RUTH CALHOUNmother of three on her backyard

fallout shelter 1951

ldquoRiddle Whatrsquos college

Thatrsquos where girls who are above

cooking and sewing go to meet

a man they can spend their lives

cooking and sewing forrdquoad for Gimbelrsquos department store campus clothes 1952

ldquoRadioactive poisoning

of the atmosphere and hence

annihilation of any life on Earth

has been brought within the range

of technical possibilitiesrdquoALBERT EINSTEINphysicist 1950

ldquoIf the television craze

continues with the present level

of programs we are destined to

have a nation of moronsrdquoDANIEL MARSHPresident of Boston University 1950

ldquoEvery time the Russians throw

an American in jail the House

Un-American Activities Committee

throws an American in jail to

get evenrdquo MORT SAHLcomedian 1950s

POODLE CUTSShort curly hairstyle gains wide

popularity and acceptance

TV GUIDENew weekly magazine achieves

circulation of 65 million by 1959

PALMER PAINT COMPANY

OF DETROITSells 12 million paint-by-number kits

ranging from simple landscapes and portraits to Leonardo da Vincirsquos The Last SupperPoodle Cut

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3cent Cost of first-class postage stamp

19cent Cost of loaf of bread

25cent Cost of issue ofSports Illustrated

35cent Cost of movie ticket

50cent Cost of gallon of milk (delivered)

$205 Average hourly wage

$2845 Cost of new car

$5234 Median incomefor a family of four

$19500Median price to buy a home

Be PreparedldquoKnow the Bombrsquos True DangersKnow the Steps You Can Take toEscape ThemmdashYou Can SurviverdquoGovernment pamphlet 1950

DIGGING YOUR OWN BOMB SHELTERBetter go shopping Below is a list of items included with the $3000Mark I Kidde Kokoon designed toaccommodate a family of five for athree- to five-day underground stay

air blower radiation detector protective apparel

suit face respirator radiation charts (4) hand shovel combi-

nation (for diggingout after the blast)

gasoline driven generator

gasoline (10 gallons)

chemical toilet toilet chemicals

(2 gallons) bunks (5) mattresses and

blankets (5) air pump (for

blowing up mattresses)

incandescent bulbs (2) 40 watts

fuses (2) 5 amperes clockmdashnon-electric

first aid kit waterless hand

cleaner sterno stove canned water

(10 gallons) canned food (meat

powdered milkcereal sugar etc)

paper products

American Scene 1950ndash1960(MILLIONS)

N U M B E R S 1 9 5 7N U M B E R S 1 9 5 7

answers 1 b 2 d 3 c 4 a

Bomb Shelter

Children 5ndash14

243

355

1950 1960Girl Scouts amp Brownies

18

40

1950 1960Bicycle Production

20

38

1950 1960National Forest Campers

15

66

1950 1960Outboard Motors in Use

28

58

1950 1960

A N A G E O F P R O S P E R I T Y 1 9 4 5 ndash 1 9 6 0

1950s WORD PLAY

Translation PleaseMatch the word to its meaningTeen-Age Lingo1 cool a a dull person an outsider2 hang loose b worthy of approval3 hairy c formidable4 yo-yo d donrsquot worry

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TARII-705

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1953Federal government institutes terminationpolicy directed at Native Americans


1956

In 1959 Lorraine Hansberryrsquos play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway The playtold the story of a working-class African American family struggling against poverty andracism The title referred to a Langston Hughes poem that wonders what happens to an unre-alized dream ldquoDoes it dry up like a raisin in the sunrdquo Hansberryrsquos play won the New YorkDrama Critics Circle Award for the best play of the year Reflecting later upon the playrsquostheme she wrote

ldquoVulgarity blind conformity and mass lethargy need not triumph in the land of Lincolnand Frederick Douglass There is simply no reason why dreams should dry up like raisinsor prunes or anything else in the United States I believe that we can impose beauty onour futurerdquo

mdashadapted from To Be Young Gifted and Black

Poverty Amidst Prosperity The booming 1950s saw a tremendous expansion of the middle class In 1950 about

1 in 3 Americans were poor By 1959 only 1 in 5 were poor Despite these dramatic gains about 30 million people still lived below the poverty line a figure set by the gov-ernment to reflect the minimum income required to support a family Such poverty

The Other Side ofAmerican Life

1955Rudolf Fleschrsquos Why JohnnyCanrsquot Read published

1962Michael Harringtonrsquos TheOther America published

1959A Raisin in the Sunopens on Broadway

1953

Lorraine Hansberry

1959 1962

Main Idea Not everyone in the United States pros-pered during the nationrsquos postwar boomas millions of minorities and rural whitesstruggled daily with poverty

Key Terms and Namespoverty line Michael Harrington urbanrenewal Bracero program terminationpolicy juvenile delinquency

Reading StrategyTaking Notes As you read about socialproblems in the United States in the 1950suse the major headings of the section tocreate an outline similar to the one below

Reading Objectivesbull Identify those groups that found them-

selves left out of the American eco-nomic boom following World War II

bull Explain the factors that contributed tothe poverty among various groups

Section ThemeContinuity and Change For somegroups poverty continued during theapparent abundance of the 1950s

The Other Side of American LifeI Poverty Amidst Prosperity

ABCDE

II

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remained invisible to most Americans who assumedthat the countryrsquos general prosperity had providedeveryone with a comfortable existence The writerMichael Harrington however made no suchassumptions During the 1950s Harrington set out tochronicle poverty in the United States In his bookThe Other America published in 1962 he alerted thosein the mainstream to what he saw in the run-downand hidden communities of the country

ldquoTens of millions of Americans are at this verymoment maimed in body and spirit existing at levelsbeneath those necessary for human decency If thesepeople are not starving they are hungry and some-times fat with hunger for that is what cheap foodsdo They are without adequate housing and educa-tion and medical carerdquo

mdashfrom The Other America

The poor included single mothers and the elderlyminority immigrants such as Puerto Ricans andMexicans rural Americans black and white andinner city residents who remained stuck in crowdedslums as wealthier citizens fled to the suburbsPoverty also gripped many Americans in the nationrsquosAppalachian region which stretches fromPennsylvania to Georgia as well as NativeAmericans many of whom endured grindingpoverty whether they stayed on reservations ormigrated to cities

ECONOMICS

The Decline of the Inner City The poverty in the1950s was most apparent in the nationrsquos urban cen-ters As white families moved to the suburbs manyinner cities became home to poorer less educatedminority groups The centers of many cities deterio-rated because as the middle class moved out theirtax money went with them This deprived inner citiesof the tax dollars necessary to provide adequate pub-lic transportation housing and other services

When government tried to help inner city resi-dents it often made matters worse During the 1950sfor example urban renewal programs tried to elimi-nate poverty by tearing down slums and erecting newhigh-rise buildings for poor residents The crowdedanonymous conditions of these high-rise projectshowever often created an atmosphere of violenceThe government also unwittingly encouraged the res-idents of public housing to remain poor by evictingthem as soon as they began to earn any money

In the end urban renewal programs actuallydestroyed more housing space than they created Too

often in the name of urban improvement thewrecking ball destroyed poor peoplersquos homes tomake way for roadways parks universities tree-lined boulevards or shopping centers

African Americans Many of the citizens left behindin the cities as families fled to the suburbs wereAfrican American The large number of AfricanAmerican inner city residents resulted largely from themigration of more than 3 million African Americansfrom the South to the North between 1940 and 1960

Many African Americans had migrated in thehopes of finding greater economic opportunity andescaping violence and racial intimidation For manyof these migrants however life proved to be littlebetter in Northern cities Fewer and fewer jobs wereavailable as numerous factories and mills left thecities for suburbs and smaller towns in order to cuttheir costs Long-standing patterns of racial discrimi-nation in schools housing hiring and salaries in theNorth kept inner-city African Americans poor Thelast hired and the first fired for good jobs they oftenremained stuck in the worst-paying occupations In1958 African American salaries on average equaledonly 51 percent of what whites earned

Inner-City Poverty This young African American girl in Chicagorsquos inner

city struggles to fill a bowl with water that has frozen due to lack of heat

Why did the numbers of poor in the countryrsquos inner cities grow in the1950s

History

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Poverty and racial discrimination also deprivedmany African Americans of other benefits such asdecent medical care Responding to a correspondentwho had seen A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberrywrote ldquoThe ghettos are killing us not only ourdreams but our very bodies It is not an abstrac-tion to us that the average [African American] has alife expectancy of five to ten years less than the aver-age whiterdquo Several African American groups suchas the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality(CORE) pressed for greater economic opportunityfor African Americans In general however theseorganizations met with little success

Hispanics African Americans were not the onlyminority group that struggled with poverty Much ofthe nationrsquos Hispanic population faced the sameproblems During the 1950s and early 1960s theBracero program brought nearly 5 million Mexicansto the United States to work on farms and ranches inthe Southwest The Braceros were temporary contractworkers and many later returned home Some camewith their families however and about 350000 set-tled permanently in the United States

These laborers who worked on large farmsthroughout the country lived a life of extremepoverty and hardship They toiled long hours forlittle pay in conditions that were often unbearable AsMichael Harrington noted ldquo[The nationrsquos migrant

laborers] work ten-eleven-twelve hour days in tem-peratures over one hundred degrees Sometimesthere is no drinking water Women and childrenwork on ladders and with hazardous machineryBabies are brought to the field and are placed in lsquocra-dlesrsquo of wood boxesrdquo

Away from the fields many Mexican familieslived in small crudely built shacks while some didnot even have a roof over their heads ldquoThey sleepwhere they can some in the openrdquo Harrington notedabout one group of migrant workers ldquoThey eat whenthey can (and sometimes what they can)rdquo The nationwould pay little attention to the plight of Mexicanfarm laborers until the 1960s when the workersbegan to organize for greater rights

Native Americans Native Americans also facedchallenges throughout the postwar era of prosperityBy the middle of the 1900s Native Americansmdashwhomade up less than one percent of the populationmdashwere the poorest group in the nation Average annualfamily income for Native American families for exam-ple was $1000 less than that for African Americans

After World War II during which many NativeAmerican soldiers had served with distinction theUS government launched a program to bring NativeAmericans into mainstream societymdashwhether theywanted to assimilate or not Under the plan whichbecame known as the termination policy the federalgovernment withdrew all official recognition of theNative American groups as legal entities and madethem subject to the same laws as white citizens Atthe same time the government encouraged NativeAmericans to blend in to larger society by helpingthem move off the reservations to cities such asMinneapolis Minnesota

Although the idea of integrating Native Americansinto mainstream society began with good intentionssome of its supporters had more selfish goalsSpeculators and developers sometimes gained richfarmland at the expense of destitute Native Americangroups

Most Native Americans found termination a dis-astrous policy that only deepened their poverty Inthe mid-1950s for example the Welfare Council ofMinneapolis described Native American living con-ditions in that city as miserable ldquoOne Indian familyof five or six living in two rooms will take in rela-tives and friends who come from the reservationsseeking jobs until perhaps fifteen people will becrowded into the spacerdquo the council reportedDuring the 1950s Native Americans in Minneapoliscould expect to live only 37 years compared to 46

Vocational Training Native American Franklin Beaver learns to become a

stone mason at this vocational school sponsored by the US Indian Bureau

Why was the government trying to bring Native Americans into mainstreamsociety

History

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years for all Minnesota Native Americans and 68years for other Minneapolis residents BenjaminReifel a Sioux described the widespread despairthat the termination policy produced

ldquoThe Indians believed that when the dark clouds ofwar passed from the skies overhead their rising tideof expectations though temporarily stalled wouldagain reappear Instead they were threatened by ter-mination Soaring expectations began to plungeTermination took on the connotation of exterminationfor manyrdquo

mdashquoted in The Earth Shall Weep

Appalachia The nationrsquos minorities were not theonly people dealing with poverty The picturesquestreams and mountains of Appalachia hid the ruinedmines scarred hills and abandoned farms of impov-erished families who had dwelled in these hills forgenerations

During the 1950s 15 million people abandonedAppalachia to seek a better life in the nationrsquos citiesThey left behind elderly and other less mobile resi-dents ldquoWhole countiesrdquo wrote one reporter who vis-ited the region ldquoare precariously held together by a

flour-and-dried-milk paste of surplus foods Themen who are no longer needed in the mines and thefarmers who cannot compete have themselvesbecome surplus commodities in the mountainsrdquo

A host of statistics spoke to Appalachiarsquos miseryStudies revealed high rates of nutritional deficiencyand infant mortality Appalachia had fewer doctorsper thousand people than the rest of the country andthe doctors it did have were older than their counter-parts in other areas In addition schooling in theregion was considered even worse than in inner cityslums

Identifying Which groups of people

were left out of the countryrsquos economic boom of the 1950s

Juvenile DelinquencyDuring the 1950s many middle-class white

Americans found it easy to ignore the poverty andracism that afflicted many of the nationrsquos minoritiessince they themselves were removed from it Somesocial problems however became impossible toignore

One problem at this time was a rise in or at least arise in the reporting of juvenile delinquencymdashanti-social or criminal behavior of young people Between1948 and 1953 the United States saw a 45 percent risein juvenile crime rates A popular 1954 book titled1000000 Delinquents correctly calculated that in thefollowing year about 1 million young people wouldget into some kind of criminal trouble Car theftstopped the list of juvenile crimes but people were

Reading Check


Poverty in Appalachia This mining family lived in the kind of extreme

poverty that was often overlooked in the 1950s Eight people lived in this

three-room house lined with newspaper Why was infant mortality sohigh in Appalachia

History

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18850237

also alarmed at the behavior of young people whobelonged to street gangs and committed muggingsrape and even murder

Americans could not agree on what had triggeredthe rise in delinquency Experts blamed it on a hostof reasons including poverty lack of religion tele-vision movies comic books racism busy parents arising divorce rate and anxiety over the militarydraft Some cultural critics claimed that young people were rebelling against the hypocrisy andconformity of their parents Conservative commen-tators pinned the blame on a lack of disciplineDoting parents complained Bishop Fulton J Sheenhad raised bored children who sought new thrillssuch as ldquoalcohol marijuana even murderrdquo Liberalobservers preferred to pinpoint social causes blam-ing teen violence on poverty and feelings ofhopelessness among underprivileged youthsDelinquency in the 1950s however cut across class

and racial linesmdashthe majority of car thieves forexample had grown up in middle-class homes

Most teens of course steered clear of gangsdrugs and crime Nonetheless the publictended to stereotype young people as juveniledelinquents especially those teens who favoredunconventional clothing long hair or streetslang

Many parents were also growing concernedover the nationrsquos educational system As babyboomers began entering the school system theyignited a spurt in school construction During the1950s school enrollments increased by 13 mil-lion School districts struggled to erect new build-ings and hire new teachers Nevertheless

shortages sprang up in both buildings and the peopleto staff them

Americansrsquo education worries only intensified in1957 after the Soviet Union launched the worldrsquos firstspace satellites Sputnik I and Sputnik II ManyAmericans felt they had fallen behind their Cold Warenemy and blamed what they felt was a lack of techni-cal education in the nationrsquos schools Life magazineproclaimed a ldquoCrisis in Educationrdquo and offered a grimwarning ldquoWhat has long been an ignored nationalproblem Sputnik has made a recognized crisisrdquo In thewake of the Sputnik launches efforts began to improvemath and science education in the schools Profoundfears about the countryrsquos young people it seemeddominated the end of a decade that had brought greatprogress for many Americans

Evaluating How did many

Americans feel about the education system of the 1950s

Reading Check



1 Define poverty line urban renewaltermination policy juveniledelinquency

2 Identify Michael Harrington Braceroprogram

3 Evaluate how the federal governmentrsquostermination policy affected NativeAmericans

Reviewing Themes

4 Continuity and Change Why did urbanrenewal fail the poor of the inner cities

Critical Thinking

5 Interpreting What were some possiblereasons for a dramatic rise in juveniledelinquency in the 1950s

6 Organizing Use a graphic organizersimilar to the one below to list the groupsof Americans who were left out of thecountryrsquos postwar economic boom

Analyzing Visuals

7 Analyzing Photographs Study thephotograph on this page What in thephotograph might attract young peopleto this type of life Why would othersoppose such a life

Groups ofLow-IncomeAmericans

8 Expository Writing Using library orInternet resources find informationabout juvenile delinquency in the UnitedStates today to write a report Comparetodayrsquos problems with those of the1950s Share your report with the class


Rebelling Against Conformity This biker one of the Louisville ldquoOutlawsrdquo fits the

stereotype of the 1950s juvenile delinquent



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Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill

Writing a Journal Imagine that you have had thechance to take part in a great adventuremdashfor instanceserving in the armed forces during a war overseas orparticipating in a spaceflight Make notes for a journalentry describing what you have done and seen

Glencoersquos Skillbuilder Interactive Workbook

CD-ROM Level 2 provides instruction andpractice in key social studies skills

Why Learn This Skill

Journal writing is personal writing with a casualstyle The style in which you write is not as impor-tant as what you write aboutmdashyour experiencesinterests and feelings Journal writing can help yougenerate new ideas and it can also give you aclearer picture of your thoughts and help you putthem in order

Learning the Skill

A journal is a written account that records whatyou have learned or experienced In a journal youcan express your feelings about a subject summa-rize key topics describe difficulties or successes insolving particular problems and draw maps orother visuals To help you get started writing inyour journal follow these steps

bull Jot down notes or questions about a specific topicor event as you read your textbook Then look fordetails and answers about it as you continuereading

bull Describe your feelings as you read a selection orlook at a photograph Are you angry happy frus-trated or sad Explain why you are reacting inthis way

bull Ask yourself if drawing a map or flowchartwould help you understand an event better If sodraw in your journal

Practicing the Skill

The following excerpt is a journal entry describ-ing the launching of the nationrsquos first satellite in1958 Read the excerpt and then use the followingquestions to help you write entries in your ownjournal

ldquoAs the firing command neared a deadly silencefell on those who were watching At fourteenand one-half seconds after time zero after thepriming fuel had ignited almost invisibly the mainstage engine came to life with an immeasurablethrust of flame in all directions With

thousands of eyes following it the rocket dug intothe night and accelerated as its sound loudenedSpectators on nearby beaches pointed and cranedtheir necks and cried lsquoThere it isrsquo and began tocheerrdquo

1 What is particularly interesting about thisdescription

2 What are your feelings as you read the excerpt

3 Note the descriptive phrases and details thatmake the event come to life Try to use similartechniques when writing in your journal

4 Draw a map or other visual to help you under-stand the situation described here

Skills Assessment

Complete the Practicing Skills questions on page713 and the Chapter 22 Skill ReinforcementActivity to assess your mastery of this skill

Cover from aWorld War II

journal

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19519035

Reviewing Key Facts

16 Identify GI Bill Fair Deal John Kenneth Galbraith DavidRiesman Ed Sullivan Alan Freed Elvis Presley Jack KerouacMichael Harrington

17 What were three characteristics of the economy of theUnited States after World War II

18 What were two reasons for the economic boom of the1950s

19 What caused many Americans to move to the suburbs in the1950s

20 How did the scientific discovery of the transistor affect communications

21 Which groups of Americans found themselves left out of thepostwar economic boom

Critical Thinking

22 Analyzing Themes Continuity and Change How has massmedia changed since the 1950s

23 Evaluating What factors led to a rise in juvenile delinquencyin the United States during the 1950s

24 Comparing and Contrasting Harry S Truman was aDemocrat and Dwight D Eisenhower was a Republican Howwere the domestic agendas of these two presidents differentHow were they similar

25 Interpreting Primary Sources George Gallup one of thenationrsquos first pollsters spoke at the University of Iowa in 1953about the importance of mass media in the United StatesRead the excerpt and answer the questions that follow

ldquoOne of the real threats to Americarsquos future place inthe world is a citizenry which duly elects to be enter-tained and not informed From the time the typical citi-zen arises and looks at his morning newspaper until heturns off his radio or television set before going to bed

1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding

5 dynamic conservatism

6 white-collar

7 blue-collar

8 multinational corporation

9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

14 termination policy

15 juvenile delinquency

Reviewing Key TermsOn a sheet of paper use each of these terms in a sentence

bull The GI Bill provided loans to millions of war veterans

bull Consumer spending increased rapidlybull More Americans owned homes than ever before

bull Workers went on strike for higher wagesbull Trumanrsquos civil rights bill did not passbull Eisenhower cut back New Deal programs

bull The US population grew dramaticallybull The number of working women increased

bull Financially able people moved from crowded cities to new suburbs

bull Many poor people remained in cities that now faced major economic and social problems

bull Medical breakthroughs included the polio vaccine antibiotics and treatments for heart disease arthritis cancer and diabetes

bull Improvements in communication transportation and electronics allowed Americans to work more efficiently

bull Many poor people in inner cities and rural areas had limited access to health care

bull Popular culture included new forms of music radio cinema and literature

bull Television replaced radio as the nationrsquos newest form of mass media

bull African Americans and other minorities were for the most part not depicted on television

bull Many television programs promoted stereotypical gender roles

Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy

Signs of Prosperity Signs of Inequality

he has unwittingly cast his vote a hundred times forentertainment or for education Without his knowing ithe has helped to determine the very character of ourthree most important media of communicationmdashthepress radio and television rdquo

mdashquoted in Vital Speeches of the Day

a According to Gallup what is a threat to the future of theUnited States in the world

b How do American citizens determine what is read seenand heard in the mass media

26 Organizing Use a graphic organizer similar to the onebelow to list the changes to the American family during the1950s

Practicing Skills

27 Writing a Journal Imagine that you are Dr Jonas Salk andyou realize that you have just discovered the worldrsquos firstsuccessful polio vaccine Write a journal entry that describeshow you feel about this accomplishment and what impact itwill have on the world

Writing Activity

28 Writing a Book Report Read one of the books aboutAmerican society in the 1950s such as Why Johnny CanrsquotRead or The Other America Write a book report explainingthe main concepts of the book and whether or not the issuesare similar to or different from the main issues in Americansociety today

Chapter Activities

29 American History Primary Source Document Library

CD-ROM Read the speech ldquoOn Televisionrdquo by NewtonMinow under The Postwar World Working with a few ofyour classmates evaluate whether television has improvedsince Minowrsquos critical assessment Has television contentchanged since the 1950s If so how Present your findingsand comparisons to your class

30 Research Project Work with a small group to researchadvertisements from the 1950s Write a report comparingand contrasting advertisements from that decade with adver-tisements today Present one or more of the advertisementsalong with your comparisons to your class

Geography and History

31 The graph above shows the number of suburban dwellers inthe United States as a percentage of the total populationStudy the data displayed in the graph and answer the ques-tions belowa Interpreting Graphs What trend in the percentage of

suburban dwellers does this graph show

b Understanding Cause and Effect How might the trendof suburban dwellers shown on this graph have affectedlife in suburbs and cities

Perc

ent o

f Tot

al P

opul

atio

n

50454035302520151050

Year

Suburban Dwellers 1910mdash1980

19801970196019501940193019201910

Source The First Measured Century

Changes to American Family

Self-Check QuizVisit the American Republic Since 1877 Web site at

and click on Self-Check QuizzesmdashChapter 22 to assess your knowledge of chapter content

HISTORY

tarvol2glencoecom

Directions Choose the phrase that best

completes the following statement

Which of the following did the Eisenhower administrationwork to achieve

F Fixing wage and price controls

G Defeating the Federal Highway Act

H Repealing right-to-work laws

J Extending the Social Security system

Test-Taking Tip Pay careful attention to the wording of thequestion Note that three of the four answer choices werenot part of Eisenhowerrsquos programs

StandardizedTest Practice


The American Republic Since 1877 - Kentucky Edition

Kentucky Core Content for Social Studies Assessment

Table of Contents

Core Content for Social Studies Assessment

Correlation to the Core Content for Social Studies Assessment

Preparing for the Kentucky Core Content Test for Social Studies

Countdown to the KCCT

Focus on Kentucky

Depth of Knowledge Levels for Social Studies

Table of Contents

Previewing Your Textbook

Scavenger Hunt

Reading for Information

How Do I Study History

Early American History Review Test

Reading Skills Handbook

Identifying Words and Building Vocabulary

Reading for a Reason

Understanding What You Read

Thinking About Your Reading

Understanding Text Structure

Reading for Research

National Geographic Reference Atlas

United States Political

United States Physical

United States 2000 Congressional Reapportionment

United States Territorial Growth

Middle America PhysicalPolitical

Canada PhysicalPolitical

Middle East PhysicalPolitical

World Political

United States Facts

National Geographic Geography Handbook

Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps

The Elements of Geography

Geographic Dictionary

Unit 1 Foundations of Liberty Beginningsndash1848

Chapter 1 Converging Cultures Prehistory to 1620

Section 1 The Migration to America

Section 2 Europe and Africa

Section 3 Europe Encounters America

Section 4 Spain and France Build Empires

Chapter 1 Assessment and Activities

Chapter 2 The English Arrive in America 1607ndash1763

Section 1 Englands First Colonies

Section 2 The New England Colonies

Section 3 The Middle and Southern Colonies

Section 4 Colonial Ways of Life

Section 5 A Diverse Society


Chapter 3 The American Revolution 1754ndash1789

Section 1 The Colonies Fight for Their Rights

Section 2 The Revolution Begins

The Declaration of Independence

Section 3 The War for Independence

Section 4 The Confederation

Section 5 A New Constitution


The Constitution Handbook

The Constitution of the United States

Chapter 4 Federalists and Republicans 1789ndash1820

Section 1 The Federalist Era

Section 2 The Republicans Take Power

Section 3 The Growth of American Nationalism


Chapter 5 The Young Republic 1816ndash1848

Section 1 A Growing Nation

Section 2 The Age of Jackson

Section 3 The Reform Spirit

Section 4 Manifest Destiny


Unit 2 The Crisis of Union 1848ndash1877

Chapter 6 Sectional Conflict Intensifies 1848ndash1860

Section 1 Slavery and Western Expansion

Section 2 The Crisis Deepens

Section 3 The Union Dissolves


Chapter 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction 1861ndash1877

Section 1 The Opposing Sides

Section 2 The Early Stages

Section 3 The Turning Point

Section 4 Reconstruction Begins

Section 5 Reconstruction and Republican Rule


Unit 3 The Birth of Modern America 1865ndash1900

Chapter 8 Settling the West 1865ndash1900

Section 1 Miners and Ranchers

Section 2 Farming the Plains

Section 3 Native Americans


Chapter 9 Industrialization 1865ndash1901

Section 1 The Rise of Industry

Section 2 The Railroads

Section 3 Big Business

Section 4 Unions


Chapter 10 Urban America 1865ndash1896

Section 1 Immigration

Section 2 Urbanization

Section 3 The Gilded Age

Section 4 The Rebirth of Reform


Chapter 11 Politics and Reform 1877ndash1896

Section 1 Stalemate in Washington

Section 2 Populism

Section 3 The Rise of Segregation


Unit 4 Imperialism and Progressivism 1890ndash1919

Chapter 12 Becoming a World Power 1872ndash1912

Section 1 The Imperialist Vision

Section 2 The Spanish-American War

Section 3 New American Diplomacy


Chapter 13 The Progressive Movement 1890ndash1919

Section 1 The Roots of Progressivism

Section 2 Roosevelt in Office

Section 3 The Taft Administration

Section 4 The Wilson Years


Chapter 14 World War I and Its Aftermath 1914ndash1920

Section 1 The United States Enters World War I

Section 2 The Home Front

Section 3 A Bloody Conflict

Section 4 The Wars Impact


Unit 5 Boom and Bust 1920ndash1941

Chapter 15 The Jazz Age 1921ndash1929

Section 1 A Clash of Values

Section 2 Cultural Innovations

Section 3 African American Culture


Chapter 16 Normalcy and Good Times 1921ndash1929

Section 1 Presidential Politics

Section 2 A Growing Economy

Section 3 The Policies of Prosperity


Chapter 17 The Great Depression Begins 1929ndash1932

Section 1 Causes of the Depression

Section 2 Life During the Depression

Section 3 Hoover Responds


Chapter 18 Roosevelt and the New Deal 1933ndash1939

Section 1 Roosevelt Takes Office

Section 2 The First New Deal

Section 3 The Second New Deal

Section 4 The New Deal Coalition


Unit 6 Global Struggles 1931ndash1960

Chapter 19 A World in Flames 1931ndash1941

Section 1 America and the World

Section 2 World War II Begins

Section 3 The Holocaust

Section 4 America Enters the War


Chapter 20 America and World War II 1941ndash1945

Section 1 Mobilizing for War

Section 2 The Early Battles

Section 3 Life on the Home Front

Section 4 Pushing the Axis Back

Section 5 The War Ends


Chapter 21 The Cold War Begins 1945ndash1960

Section 1 Origins of the Cold War

Section 2 The Early Cold War Years

Section 3 The Cold War and American Society

Section 4 Eisenhowers Policies


Chapter 22 Postwar America 1945ndash1960

Section 1 Truman and Eisenhower

Section 2 The Affluent Society

Section 3 Popular Culture of the 1950s

Section 4 The Other Side of American Life


Unit 7 A Time of Upheaval 1954ndash1980

Chapter 23 The New Frontier and the Great Society 1961ndash1968

Section 1 The New Frontier

Section 2 JFK and the Cold War

Section 3 The Great Society


Chapter 24 The Civil Rights Movement 1954ndash1968

Section 1 The Movement Begins

Section 2 Challenging Segregation

Section 3 New Issues


Chapter 25 The Vietnam War 1954ndash1975

Section 1 The United States Focuses on Vietnam

Section 2 Going to War in Vietnam

Section 3 Vietnam Divides the Nation

Section 4 The War Winds Down


Chapter 26 The Politics of Protest 1960ndash1980

Section 1 The Student Movement and the Counterculture

Section 2 The Feminist Movement

Section 3 New Approaches to Civil Rights

Section 4 Saving the Earth


Unit 8 A Changing Society 1968ndashPresent

Chapter 27 Politics and Economics 1971ndash1980

Section 1 The Nixon Administration

Section 2 The Watergate Scandal

Section 3 Ford and Carter

Section 4 The Me Decade Life in the 1970s


Chapter 28 Resurgence of Conservatism 1980ndash1992

Section 1 The New Conservatism

Section 2 The Reagan Years

Section 3 Life in the 1980s

Section 4 The End of the Cold War


Chapter 29 Into a New Century 1992ndashpresent

Section 1 The Technological Revolution

Section 2 The Clinton Years

Section 3 An Interdependent World

Section 4 America Enters a New Century

Section 5 The War on Terrorism


Appendix

Presidents of the United States

Primary Sources Library

Documents of American History

Supreme Court Case Summaries

Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index

Acknowledgments and Photo Credits

Feature Contents



American Literature

Different Viewpoints

Technology amp History

National Geographic Moment in History

National Geographic Geography amp History

What Ifhellip

What Life Was Likehellip

World History Connection

World Geography Connection

Looking Backhellip

Linking Past amp Present

TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History

Fact Fiction Folklore

Causes and Effects

Primary Source Quotes

National Geographic Maps

Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks

Active Reading Note-Taking Guide - Student Edition

Chapter 1 Converging Cultures





Chapter 2 The English Arrive in America

Section 1 Englandrsquos First Colonies





Chapter 3 The American Revolution






Chapter 4 Federalists and Republicans




Chapter 5 The Young Republic





Chapter 6 Sectional Conflict Intensifies




Chapter 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction






Chapter 8 Settling the West




Chapter 9 Industrialization




Section 4 Unions

Chapter 10 Urban America





Chapter 11 Politics and Reform


Section 2 Populism


Chapter 12 Becoming a World Power




Chapter 13 The Progressive Movement





Chapter 14 World War I and Its Aftermath




Section 4 The Warrsquos Impact

Chapter 15 The Jazz Age




Chapter 16 Normalcy and Good Times




Chapter 17 The Great Depression Begins




Chapter 18 Roosevelt and the New Deal





Chapter 19 A World in Flames





Chapter 20 America and World War II






Chapter 21 The Cold War Begins




Section 4 Eisenhowerrsquos Policies

Chapter 22 Postwar America





Chapter 23 The New Frontier and the Great Society




Chapter 24 The Civil Rights Movement




Chapter 25 The Vietnam War





Chapter 26 The Politics of Protest





Chapter 27 Politics and Economics




Section 4 The ldquoMerdquo Decade Life in the 1970s

Chapter 28 Resurgence of Conservatism





Chapter 29 Into a New Century






Haitian Creole Summaries

Chapit 1 Rankont Kilti yo Preyistwa jouk 1620

Chapit 2 Anglegrave yo Rive nan Lamerik 1607ndash1763

Chapit 3 Revolisyon Ameriken 1754ndash1789

Chapit 4 Federalis ak Repibliken 1789ndash1820

Chapit 5 Jenn Repiblik la 1816ndash1848

Chapit 6 Konfli Gwoup yo Ogmante 1848ndash1860

Chapit 7 Lagegrave Sivil ak Rekonstriksyon 1861ndash1877

Chapit 8 Kolonizasyon Lwegraves 1865ndash1900

Chapit 9 Endistriyalizasyon 1865ndash1901

Chapit 10 Mogravedvi nan Vil Ameriken yo 1865ndash1896

Chapit 11 Politik ak Refogravem 1877ndash1896

Chapit 12 Peyi a vin yon Puisans Mondyal 1872ndash1912

Chapit 13 Mouvman Pwogresif 1890ndash1919

Chapit 14 Premye Gegrave Mondyal ak Konsekans li yo 1914ndash1920

Chapit 15 Epogravek Djaz la 1921ndash1929

Chapit 16 Nogravemalite ak Pwosperite 1921ndash1929

Chapit 17 Lagrann Depresyon Koumanse 1929ndash1932

Chapit 18 Roosvelt ak Nyoudil 1933ndash1939

Chapit 19 Yon Monn Vyolan 1931ndash1941

Chapit 20 Amerik ak Dezyegravem Gegrave Mondyal 1941ndash1945

Chapit 21 Lagegravefwad Koumanse 1945ndash1960

Chapit 22 Amerik Apre Lagegrave 1945ndash1960

Chapit 23 Fwontyegrave ak Gran Sosyete 1961ndash1968

Chapit 24 Mouvman pou Dwa Sivil yo 1954ndash1968

Chapit 25 Lagegrave Vyetnam 1954ndash1975

Chapit 26 Politiik Pwotestasyon 1960ndash1980

Chapit 27 Politik ak Ekonomi 1971ndash1980

Chapit 28 Remonte Konsegravevatis 1980ndash1992

Chapit 29 Nan yon Nouvo Syegravek 1992ndashJouk Kounye a

Kentucky Core Content Test Practice Workbook

Contents

Overview

Guide to Analyzing Graphics

Core Content for Social Studies Assessment Tested in This Booklet

Diagnostic Test

Standardized Test Practice Lessons

Lesson 1 Using the Process of Elimination

Lesson 2 Interpreting Maps to Answer Test Questions

Lesson 3 Interpreting Charts and Tables

Lesson 4 Reading and Interpreting Graphs

Lesson 5 Reading a Time Line

Lesson 6 Inferring from a Reading or Graphic

Lesson 7 Comparing and Contrasting

Lesson 8 Relating Cause and Effect

Lesson 9 Identifying the Main Idea

Lesson 10 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion

Lesson 11 Interpreting Primary Sources

Lesson 12 Interpreting Illustrations and Political Cartoons

Practice Test

Reading Essentials and Study Guide - Student Edition













































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism
























































































Spanish Reading Essentials and Study Guide - Student Edition

Capiacutetulo 1 Encuentro de culturas prehistoria a 1620

Seccioacuten 1 La migracioacuten hacia Ameacuterica

Seccioacuten 2 Europa y Aacutefrica

Seccioacuten 3 Europa encuentra Ameacuterica

Seccioacuten 4 Espantildea y Francia construyen imperios

Capiacutetulo 2 Los ingleses llegan a Norteameacuterica 1607 a 1763

Seccioacuten 1 Las primeras colonias de Inglaterra

Seccioacuten 2 Las colonias de Nueva Inglaterra

Seccioacuten 3 Las colonias del Medio Este y del Sureste

Seccioacuten 4 Estilos de vida colonial

Seccioacuten 5 Una sociedad diversa

Capiacutetulo 3 La independencia de los Estados Unidos 1754 a 1789

Seccioacuten 1 La lucha de las colonias por sus derechos

Seccioacuten 2 Inicio de la Revolucioacuten

Seccioacuten 3 La guerra por la independencia

Seccioacuten 4 La Confederacioacuten

Seccioacuten 5 Una nueva Constitucioacuten

Capiacutetulo 4 Federalistas y republicanos 1789 a 1820

Seccioacuten 1 La era federalista

Seccioacuten 2 Los republicanos toman el poder

Seccioacuten 3 Incremento del nacionalismo americano

Capiacutetulo 5 La joven repuacuteblica 1816 a 1848

Seccioacuten 1 Una nacioacuten en crecimiento

Seccioacuten 2 La era Jackson

Seccioacuten 3 El espiacuteritu de la reforma

Seccioacuten 4 El Destino Manifiesto

Capiacutetulo 6 Conflicto local 1848 a 1860

Seccioacuten 1 La esclavitud y la expansioacuten hacia el oeste

Seccioacuten 2 La crisis se profundiza

Seccioacuten 3 Disolucioacuten de la unioacuten

Capiacutetulo 7 La Guerra Civil y la Reconstruccioacuten 1861 a 1877

Seccioacuten 1 Los contrincantes

Seccioacuten 2 Las primeras etapas

Seccioacuten 3 El momento decisivo

Seccioacuten 4 Comienza la reconstruccioacuten

Seccioacuten 5 Reconstruccioacuten y gobierno republicano

Capiacutetulo 8 La colonizacioacuten del oeste 1865 a 1900

Seccioacuten 1 Mineros y rancheros

Seccioacuten 2 El cultivo de las llanuras

Seccioacuten 3 Los indiacutegenas americanos

Capiacutetulo 9 El crecimiento industrial 1865 a 1901

Seccioacuten 1 El surgimiento de la industria

Seccioacuten 2 Los ferrocarriles

Seccioacuten 3 Los grandes negocios

Seccioacuten 4 Los sindicatos

Capiacutetulo 10 La vida urbana de los Estados Unidos 1865 a 1896

Seccioacuten 1 La inmigracioacuten

Seccioacuten 2 La urbanizacioacuten

Seccioacuten 3 La eacutepoca dorada

Seccioacuten 4 El renacimiento de la reforma

Capiacutetulo 11 Poliacutetica y reforma 1877 a 1896

Seccioacuten 1 Estancamiento en washington

Seccioacuten 2 Populismo

Seccioacuten 3 El origen de la segregacioacuten

Capiacutetulo 12 Una potencia mundial 1872 a 1912

Seccioacuten 1 La visioacuten imperialista

Seccioacuten 2 La guerra hispano-americana

Seccioacuten 3 La nueva diplomacia americana

Capiacutetulo 13 El Movimiento Progresista 1890 a 1919

Seccioacuten 1 Las raiacuteces del movimiento progresista

Seccioacuten 2 Roosevelt en el gobierno

Seccioacuten 3 La administracioacuten de taft

Seccioacuten 4 Los antildeos de Wilson

Capiacutetulo 14 La Primera Guerra Mundial y sus repercusiones 1914 a 1920

Seccioacuten 1 Estados Unidos entra a la primera guerra mundial

Seccioacuten 2 El frente domeacutestico

Seccioacuten 3 Un conflicto sangriento

Seccioacuten 4 El impacto de la guerra

Capiacutetulo 15 La eacutepoca del jazz 1921 a 1929

Seccioacuten 1 El colapso de los valores

Seccioacuten 2 Innovaciones culturales

Seccioacuten 3 Cultura afroamericana

Capiacutetulo 16 Normalidad y prosperidad 1921 a 1929

Seccioacuten 1 Poliacutetica presidencial

Seccioacuten 2 Una economia creciente

Seccioacuten 3 Las poliacuteticas de la prosperidad

Capiacutetulo 17 Inicio de la Gran Depresioacuten 1929 a 1932

Seccioacuten 1 Causas de la depresioacuten

Seccioacuten 2 La vida durante la depresioacuten

Seccioacuten 3 La respuesta de hoover

Capiacutetulo 18 Roosevelt y el Nuevo Trato 1933 a 1939

Seccioacuten 1 Roosevelt asume el poder

Seccioacuten 2 El primer nuevo trato

Seccioacuten 3 El segundo nuevo trato

Seccioacuten 4 El nuevo trato de la coalicioacuten

Capiacutetulo 19 Un mundo en llamas 1934 a 1941

Seccioacuten 1 Estados Unidos y el mundo

Seccioacuten 2 La segunda guerra mundial

Seccioacuten 3 El holocausto

Seccioacuten 4 Estados Unidos entra a la guerra

Capiacutetulo 20 Los Estados Unidos y la Segunda Guerra Mundial 1941 a 1945

Seccioacuten 1 Movilizacioacuten para la guerra

Seccioacuten 2 Las primeras batallas

Seccioacuten 3 La vida en el frente interno

Seccioacuten 4 La retirada de las potencias del eje

Seccioacuten 5 El fin de la guerra

Capiacutetulo 21 El comienzo de la Guerra Friacutea 1945 a 1960

Seccioacuten 1 Los oriacutegenes de la guerra friacutea

Seccioacuten 2 Los primeros antildeos de la guerra friacutea

Seccioacuten 3 La guerra friacutea y la sociedad estadounidense

Seccioacuten 4 Las poliacuteticas de Eisenhower

Capiacutetulo 22 Los Estados Unidos despueacutes de la guerra 1945 a 1960

Seccioacuten 1 Truman y Eisenhower

Seccioacuten 2 La sociedad opulenta

Seccioacuten 3 La cultura popular de los antildeos cincuenta

Seccioacuten 4 El reverso de la vida americana

Capiacutetulo 23 La nueva frontera y la gran sociedad 1961 a 1968

Seccioacuten 1 La nueva frontera

Seccioacuten 2 JFK y la guerra friacutea

Seccioacuten 3 La gran sociedad

Capiacutetulo 24 El movimiento por los Derechos Civiles 1954 a 1968

Seccioacuten 1 Comienza el movimiento

Seccioacuten 2 El desafiacuteo a la segregacioacuten

Seccioacuten 3 Nuevos asuntos

Capiacutetulo 25 La Guerra de Vietnam 1954 a 1975

Seccioacuten 1 Estados Unidos se concentra en Vietnam

Seccioacuten 2 En camino a la guerra de Vietnam

Seccioacuten 3 Vietnam divide a Estados Unidos

Seccioacuten 4 El final de la guerra

Capiacutetulo 26 La poliacutetica de protesta 1960 a 1980

Seccioacuten 1 El movimiento estudiantil y la contracultura

Seccioacuten 2 El movimiento feminista

Seccioacuten 3 Nuevos acercamientos a los derechos civiles

Seccioacuten 4 Salven a la tierra

Capiacutetulo 27 Poliacutetica y economiacutea 1971 a 1980

Seccioacuten 1 La administracioacuten de Nixon

Seccioacuten 2 El escaacutendalo watergate

Seccioacuten 3 Ford y Carter

Seccioacuten 4 La deacutecada del ldquoyordquo la vida en los antildeos 70

Capiacutetulo 28 Resurgimiento del conservadurismo 1980 a 1992

Seccioacuten 1 El nuevo conservadurismo

Seccioacuten 2 Los antildeos de Reagan

Seccioacuten 3 La vida en los antildeos 80

Seccioacuten 4 El final de la guerra friacutea

Capiacutetulo 29 Hacia un nuevo siglo 1992 al presente

Seccioacuten 1 La revolucioacuten tecnoloacutegica

Seccioacuten 2 La era de Clinton

Seccioacuten 3 Un mundo interdependiente

Seccioacuten 4 Ameacuterica comienza un nuevo siglo

Seccioacuten 5 La guerra contra el terrorismo

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Activity 2 Using Latitude and Longitude on a Map

Activity 3 Distinguishing Between Fact and Nonfact

Activity 4 Making Inferences

Activity 5 Interpreting Diagrams

Activity 6 Detecting Bias

Activity 7 Evaluating the Consequences of Decisions

Activity 8 Predicting Outcomes

Activity 9 Analyzing a Political Cartoon

Activity 10 Persuasive Writing About an Issue

Activity 11 Analyzing Statistics

Activity 12 Interpreting Primary Sources


Activity 14 Recognizing Forms of Propaganda

Activity 15 Forming Hypotheses

Activity 16 Classifying Facts and Details

Activity 17 Identifying and Evaluating Evidence

Activity 18 Outlining Information for Writing

Activity 19 Interpreting Charts and Tables

Activity 20 Making Decisions

Activity 21 Writing a News Story

Activity 22 Interpreting Graphs

Activity 23 Making Generalizations

Activity 24 Recognizing Point of View

Activity 25 Writing to Inform an Audience

Activity 26 Using Bar Graphs to Interpret Data

Activity 27 Developing a Process to Solve a Problem


Activity 29 Interpreting and Evaluating Editorials

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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

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9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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Critical Thinking



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Learning the Skill













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Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

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Population

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Economy







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Writing Activity


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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































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Boom










1950s

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TV Nation

Ozzie andHarriet


Howdy Doody

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TARII-700

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Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

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Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

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Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



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Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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1950 1960


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1959 1962









ABCDE

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ECONOMICS










History

TARII-707

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2407001













History

TARII-708

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26321985













Reading Check





History

TARII-709

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18850237










Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals









TARII-710

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1670276

711

Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



journal

TARII-711

null

19519035

Reviewing Key Facts







Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







Practicing Skills


Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








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HISTORY

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































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Reading Check



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History

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Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals


Boom










1950s

Reading Check








TARII-697

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119011665












1955 1956 1957 1958










TARII-698

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11441435










TV Nation

Ozzie andHarriet


Howdy Doody

TARII-699

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16666187















TARII-700

null

2653621










Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

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14482137















Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

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27084836

Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals










Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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Bomb Shelter

Children 5ndash14

243

355


18

40


20

38


15

66


28

58

1950 1960


1950s WORD PLAY


BE

TTMA

NN

CO

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IS

PO

PP

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FOTO

AR

CH

IVE

PH

OTO


TARII-705

null

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1956










1953

Lorraine Hansberry

1959 1962









ABCDE

II

TARII-706

null

10114484





ECONOMICS










History

TARII-707

null

2407001













History

TARII-708

null

26321985













Reading Check





History

TARII-709

null

18850237










Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals









TARII-710

null

1670276

711

Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



journal

TARII-711

null

19519035

Reviewing Key Facts







Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







Practicing Skills


Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








Perc

ent o

f Tot

al P

opul

atio

n

50454035302520151050

Year


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HISTORY

tarvol2glencoecom













Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































Help

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19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

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Reading Check



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20715561










History

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16786362







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals


Boom










1950s

Reading Check








TARII-697

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119011665












1955 1956 1957 1958










TARII-698

null

11441435










TV Nation

Ozzie andHarriet


Howdy Doody

TARII-699

null

16666187















TARII-700

null

2653621










Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

null

14482137















Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

null

27084836

Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals










Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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N O T E B O O K


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4 featherbedding


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10 baby boom

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12 poverty line

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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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4 featherbedding


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9 franchise

10 baby boom

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12 poverty line

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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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History



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Learning the Skill













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2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































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Howdy Doody

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Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

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Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

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Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals










Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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History

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Reading Check





History

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Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals









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Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



journal

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19519035

Reviewing Key Facts







Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







Practicing Skills


Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








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HISTORY

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































Help

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TV Nation

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Howdy Doody

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Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

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14482137















Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

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27084836

Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals










Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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1950 1960


1950s WORD PLAY


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1959 1962









ABCDE

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ECONOMICS










History

TARII-707

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2407001













History

TARII-708

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26321985













Reading Check





History

TARII-709

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18850237










Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals









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Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



journal

TARII-711

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19519035

Reviewing Key Facts







Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







Practicing Skills


Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








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HISTORY

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































Help

Internet Link

Previous Document

Search - Document


Page Navigator

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Button2

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TV Nation

Ozzie andHarriet


Howdy Doody

TARII-699

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2653621










Reading Check



MOMENTinHISTORY

TARII-701

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14482137















Reading Check


Jack Kerouac

TARII-702

null

27084836

Reading Check







Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals










Fats Domino

Little Richard



History



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N O T E B O O K


ProfileProfile






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20

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1950 1960


1950s WORD PLAY


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TTMA

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FOTO

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TARII-705

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1956










1953

Lorraine Hansberry

1959 1962









ABCDE

II

TARII-706

null

10114484





ECONOMICS










History

TARII-707

null

2407001













History

TARII-708

null

26321985













Reading Check





History

TARII-709

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18850237










Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



Analyzing Visuals









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Study and Writing

Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



journal

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19519035

Reviewing Key Facts







Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







Practicing Skills


Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








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HISTORY

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































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World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

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Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































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Overview



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10 baby boom

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12 poverty line

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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








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2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Technology

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Focus on Kentucky


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Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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History

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Skills Assessment



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1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







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Writing Activity


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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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History

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Reading Check





History

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18850237










Reading Check






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Critical Thinking



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Writing a Journal

Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



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1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































Spanish Summaries
































Workbook Overview































Help

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History

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Reading Check





History

TARII-709

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18850237










Reading Check






Reviewing Themes


Critical Thinking



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Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



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Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

and Medicine

Popular

Culture

Population

Patterns

Economy







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Writing Activity


Chapter Activities








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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































Contents

Overview



Diagnostic Test














Practice Test














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism





































































































































































































































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Applying the Skill






Learning the Skill













Skills Assessment



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Critical Thinking






1 closed shop

2 right-to-work law

3 union shop

4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

7 blue-collar


9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















Science

Technology

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Culture

Population

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Table of Contents





Focus on Kentucky


Table of Contents


Scavenger Hunt



















World Political

United States Facts


Introduction

Globes and Maps

Using Maps





























































Section 4 Unions










Section 2 Populism
















































































































Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



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American Literature





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Why It Matters

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SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

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Study amp Writing

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Profiles in History


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10 baby boom

11 generation gap

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Section 4 Unions










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Appendix





Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








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4 featherbedding


6 white-collar

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9 franchise

10 baby boom

11 generation gap

12 poverty line

13 urban renewal

















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Flag Etiquette

Glossary

Spanish Glossary

Index


Feature Contents



American Literature





What Ifhellip




Looking Backhellip


TIME Notebook

Why It Matters

Youre the Historian

SkillBuilder

Critical Thinking

Social Studies

Study amp Writing

Technology

Profiles in History


Causes and Effects



Charts amp Graphs

Student Workbooks














































Section 4 Unions








Section 2 Populism























































































































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Overview



Diagnostic Test














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Study amp Writing

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