Happy+Days?



That's a great question, don't you think? We will answer it in class on Thursday in a (hopefully) fun activity, but to prepare, we should do a little background reading and watching. R**ead "The Fifties" in __Creating America__(28-3, pp. 800-803), read over the ABC-CLIO links posted below, and w****atch the videos below.** 
 * FOR HOMEWORK, CREATE A LIST (IN YOUR ONLINE NOTEBOOK) OF POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES CONCERNING LIFE IN THE FIFTIES FOR CLASS ON THURSDAY. WE WILL USE IT TO WRITE SOME DIALOGUE ...**

[|The Cold War at Home] / [|The Economy Booms] / [|The Sky is the Limit] / [|Boom-Time for Babies and Houses]  POSITIVES:  -economy was booming! yipee!! -US supplying 65% of the world's manufactured goods -housing industry exploded -changes of law and government increased wages for some workers -more job opportunities -people had more money=more goods are being sold - medical advances - suburbs were created to make more homes. these were the American dream

NEGATIVES:  -bad diseases such as polio began to increase - housing shortage because the WW2 soldiers are back and some are more grown up - only whites could afford to live in a house that was considered the American dream - schools and public facilities still going by the phrase: separate but equal - baby boom: when the children were old enough to attend school, the schools struggled with record attendance levels