My+Happy+Days

The Good and Bad fact about the "Happy Days" (1950s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)


 * The Good || The Bad ||
 * President Eisnehower inreased the minimum wages and created the Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare || Nearly one out of every five americans lived in poverty in 1957 ||
 * During the 1950s, the U.S. grew almost 30 million people. (Baby Boom) || The Afican Americans and Latinos were affected by the urban decay ||
 * The baby boom also spurred the growth of suburbs. Also shopping centers, movie theaters, and resturants came to serve the suburbs. || Many could not afford homes in the suburbs ||
 * The movement of the people to the sunbelt increased the population of the warmer states of the South and Southwest. || Many illegal immigrants came, edured low wages and horrible working and living conditions ||
 * People were happy to live in affordable houses, send their children to a decent school, go shopping at malls, and the suburbs were a safe place to live || People felt pressured that they had to agree with the beliefs and ideas of the majority. ||
 * Popular magazines, films and television prgrams praised women women for their roles as housemakers || Some women felt bored/islolated. Openings were mainly nursing, teaching and office work ||
 * The economy was booming and the American industry was churning. Examples (dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers, and vacum cleaners, etc) || Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac protested that what they saw was a shallowness and conformity of American Society. ||
 * The advertising industry encouraged consumers to join the spending spree ||  ||
 * Teenagers falled in love with a form of entertainment called rock n' role ||  ||
 * Elvis was the "King of Rock n' Roll ||  ||