Life in the 1950s vs. Today
In comparison with recent times, throughout the 1950s, there was equal unemployment, more births, less women employed, a movement from large cities to the suburbs, housing shortages, changes in health, changes in transit, and multiple corporations maximized. Although some of these can be deemed negative, it always shapes history and leads us to where we are today.
The 1950s decade became known as the “Baby Boom”. There was a prediction of 5 million births by the end of the decade, which turned into approximately 50 million of the population being under 14 years old by 1959, accounting for 30 percent of the population in the US. Americans married at younger ages allowing more time for a woman to have more children. Nowadays, the average age to get married is 25 years+, increasing the number of older women having children with less of a range of child bearing years. The 1950s had the healthiest generation to date that far in American history.
Throughout this time, urban downtown areas began declining due to the large move to suburban areas, they wanted to restrict access in these suburban …show more content…
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler produced 94 percent of the cars Americans bought. It was also during this time when they convinced families that two cars were a necessity to support their lifestyles. The Interstate Highway Act was put into effect, constructing 40,000 miles of new highways. Now, we use cars as the main mode of transportation in most cities, but in the urban areas, like Chicago, they still use subways, buses, trains, taxis, and “Uber” to get around the city more efficiently and faster. Due to the need of these transportations in the 1950s, it allowed more jobs to be created in large corporations like
In comparison with recent times, throughout the 1950s, there was equal unemployment, more births, less women employed, a movement from large cities to the suburbs, housing shortages, changes in health, changes in transit, and multiple corporations maximized. Although some of these can be deemed negative, it always shapes history and leads us to where we are today.
The 1950s decade became known as the “Baby Boom”. There was a prediction of 5 million births by the end of the decade, which turned into approximately 50 million of the population being under 14 years old by 1959, accounting for 30 percent of the population in the US. Americans married at younger ages allowing more time for a woman to have more children. Nowadays, the average age to get married is 25 years+, increasing the number of older women having children with less of a range of child bearing years. The 1950s had the healthiest generation to date that far in American history.
Throughout this time, urban downtown areas began declining due to the large move to suburban areas, they wanted to restrict access in these suburban …show more content…
General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler produced 94 percent of the cars Americans bought. It was also during this time when they convinced families that two cars were a necessity to support their lifestyles. The Interstate Highway Act was put into effect, constructing 40,000 miles of new highways. Now, we use cars as the main mode of transportation in most cities, but in the urban areas, like Chicago, they still use subways, buses, trains, taxis, and “Uber” to get around the city more efficiently and faster. Due to the need of these transportations in the 1950s, it allowed more jobs to be created in large corporations like