HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Blue-Collar Worker, Nondenominational Christianity, Nikita Khrushchev
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Majority of population was in the middle class. Us produced half of the consumer goods therefore americans had more money to spend on them. G. i bill: allows veterans to go to college and get a low interest rate loan on their homes. After war: population shifts, growth of suburbia. Inter-state highway act: 1956, 26 billion dollars to build 40,000 miles of federal roads: as economy got better, birth rate rose. Baby boom: peaked in 1957: effects of baby boom: effected families social patterns, women left their jobs. There were not enough teachers and room, more schools were built, more money went into schools. Population increase: death rate declined because of better medicine. Agricultural farmers often left jobs to find new work. War had produced increased movement and mobility of citizens. The war pulled people to certain areas. Most movement to western part of the country.
