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| 1950s movies/film | focssed on popular culture, 3 dimensional images, wide angles and stereophonic sound |
| 1950s radio stations | focussed on specialized audiences, local programming and African American audiences |
| 1950s television | focussed on comedies like "I Love Lucy, Westerns, and idealized white America |
| Beatniks/Beat movement | focussed on eastern religions like Buddhism, art and poetry |
| Rock & Roll & the Beat movement | 1950s expressions of rebellion |
| Franchise | offers similar products in many locations |
| Planned Obsolescence | a marketing strategy the encouraged consumers to buy more goods |
| baby boom | the largest generation in the nation's history, the one born between 1946 and 1964 |
| Consumerism | purchasing material goods |
| Poorest group of Americans in the 1950s | American Indians |
| Termination of American Indian funding | Resulted from a congressional push to save money |
| They were not as efficient and large-scale in production | the reason small farmers were unable to compete with industrial agribusiness corporations |
| apartment owners refused to rent to minorities | the reason many minorities have trouble finding housing |
| funding affordable public housing | main purpose of urban renewal programs |
| reason the poor were called "invisible | large number of elderly, availability of cheap clothing and lack of political influence |
| Michael Harrington's book "The Other America" | argued that the poor were often hidden from the view of the middle or upper class |
| Working poor | Americans whose wages are too low to lift them out of poverty |
| Traditional American view of poverty | a moral failing of individuals and groups |
| Pauperism | the dependency on public assistance for survival |
| Jonas Salk | Invented a vaccine for polio |
| Sun belt | area of the U.S. that experienced unprecedented population growth |
| Levittown | example of a sprawling suburb |
| Demographic change that led to the baby boom | high marriage rates |
| Taft-Hartley Act | reduced the power of unions |
| Fair Deal | President Harry S. Truman's domestic program, which he began promoting in 1945 with such intentions as increasing the minimum wage, increasing aid to agriculture and education, and enacting a national heath insurance program, only some of which Congress approved |
| inflation | an increase in the supply of money or credit relative to the availability of goods and services, resulting in generally higher prices |
| White-collar | relating to the work done or those who work in an office or other professional environment |
| Dr. Spock | encouraged raising children in a non restrictive environment |
| suburbs | a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city |
| Levittown | famous planned "suburban" community built in the 1950s |
| Fedreral Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highwaysn |
| poverty line | the minimum amount of income one needs to meet basic needs |
| invisible class | reference to groups of U.S. citizens that did not enjoy the prosperity of the 1950s |
| Housing Act 1949 | created public housing and urban renewal programs in order to help all Americans live in decent conditions |
| Agribusiness | agricultural products are produced on a large scale, generally by large corporations or wealthy individuals |
| Appalachia | a mountainous region in the southeastern United States |
| Termination Policy | focused on ending the special status of American Indian tribes and integrating Indians into mainstream American culture |
| Voluntary Relocation Program | worked to relocate American Indians from reservations to citie |
