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18 Cards in this Set
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What kind of cars did wealthy white men buy? |
Lincolns |
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What kind of cars did working class people buy? |
Fords or Cadillacs |
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When was the federal highway act? |
1956 |
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How many miles of interstate highway did Congress grant? |
41,000 miles |
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Why did Eisenhower suggest the federal highway act? |
Roads were in shocking condition, it was vital to handle to the increased traffic he compared the roads to German autobahns. |
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What did the 1953 Kinsey survey find about cars? |
Young people had almost just as much sex in cars as they did in homes |
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How did cars improve the lives of women? |
Helped them escape the house by allowing them to visit shopping malls. However men still asserted dominance by taking the drivers seat. |
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How many McDonalds were there in 1960? |
228 |
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What was the effect of growing car ownership on work? |
A large proportion of Americans were employed in the service industries |
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By 1960 what percentage of Americans lived in the suburbs? |
33% mostly middle class whites in ranch houses |
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What caused the rapid building of suburban housing? |
Post war house shortage and easily available mortgages |
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What happened to a black family at a Pennsylvania levittown in 1957 |
Rocks were thrown at them? |
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What happened in the housing riots in Chicago? |
Several thousand working class families used looting and buring to drive out a black family. |
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What effect did highways have on the cities? |
Enabled suburbanities to commute. |
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Why did ethnic minorities find it hard to leave cities? |
Federal housing associations openly excluded those that were deemed 'high risk,' mostly black and jewish. Lending institutions made it hard for black Americans to borrow money. They usually paid high rent for overcrowded ghetto housing |
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How much more purchasing power did Americans have in 1960 than in the 50's? |
30% |
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What made domestic tasks easier? |
New domestic technology (eg. Washing machines, freezers,dishwashers) |
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What group of people became a major factor in the nations economy during the 60's? |
Teenagers |
