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Do Now • Please write your HW. Homework: 1. Notes Ch. 30 (p. 744 -761, 764 -765) 2. Study Guide 3. Work on Project America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Video Quiz America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Mendez v. Westminster America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

America: Past and Present Ninth Edition Chapter 29 Affluence and Anxiety America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Why was Postwar America Prosperous? America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

What were some challenges during the prosperous postwar years? America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

What was life like in the suburbs? How did it compare/contrast with city life and gender roles? America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Good Life? • Consumerism the dominant social theme of the 1950 s • Quality of life left Americans anxious and dissatisfied Explain WHY? !!! America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Areas of Greatest Growth • Church membership • School attendance • Television watching What were the causes of these areas to grow? America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Critics of the Consumer Society • Social critics of suburban culture – – – John Keats William Whyte David Riesman • C. Wright Mills criticized corporations • Jack Kerouac, “Beat” artists promote counterculture America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Reaction to Sputnik • 1957: Russians launched Sputnik • American response – – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Defense Education Act—upgrade the teaching of science • Sense of failure, declined by 1960 America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Farewell to Reform • Spirit of reform waned in postwar years • Reasons: – Growing affluence reduced sense of grievance – Americans eager to enjoy their new prosperity America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Truman and the Fair Deal • Fair Deal attempted to expand New Deal – Medical Insurance for all Americans – Revived and strengthened Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) – Federal aid to education America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Truman and the Fair Deal • Why did the Fair Deal fail? • What were some of Truman’s achievements? America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism • Eisenhower left New Deal intact • 1954: Democrats regained Congress America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Eisenhower’s Modern Republicanism • 1956: Highway Act– • What was the purpose? What did it do for the United States socially and economically? Overall, Eisenhower years were politically moderate America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Interstate Highway System America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Struggle Over Civil Rights • Cold War prompted quest for American moral superiority • Legal discrimination against African Americans challenged U. S. self-image • African Americans expected more in postwar America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Civil Rights as a Political Issue • Truman’s civil-rights legislation failed • 1948: African American vote gave Truman his margin of victory • Civil rights made part of the liberal Democratic agenda • Truman integrated the armed forces America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Desegregating the Schools • 1947: Mendez v. Westminster Earl Warren: • 1954: Brown v. Board of Education – – Segregated schools unconstitutional Desegregate “with all deliberate speed” • Massive resistance in Deep South • 1957: Eisenhower’s actions – – Federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas Commission on Civil Rights established America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Beginnings of Black Activism • NAACP: Pressed for civil rights in courts • 1955: Martin Luther King, Jr. led Montgomery bus boycott • 1956: Southern Christian Leadership Conference directed at anti-segregation • Sit-ins protested segregation laws • 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Restoring National Confidence • American people more optimistic in 1960 than in 1950 • Fear of economic depression waned • Fear of Cold War continued • Growing recognition of incompatibility of racial injustice with American ideals America: Past and Present, Ninth Edition Divine • Breen • Frederickson • Williams • Gross • Brands Copyright © 2011, © 2007, © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.