50's+Happy+days


 * __Happy:__**
 * Eisenhower pleased the conservatives with out upsetting the liberals (he agreed to expand social security, increased minimum wage for workers, and then created the departments of health, education, and welfare.)
 * Highway act of 1956
 * Population of the united states growing! by the 50's the united states grew by 30 million. This was known as "the baby boom"
 * In the 50's people didnt just move from city to suburb, they started to move from the north and east to teh south and the west filling the united states instead of most of the population being on the east (The Sunbelt)
 * the economy was booming again!
 * JFK beating Eisenhower in the election of 1960, and in the 1960 the youngest president & the first Catholic president


 * __Not that Happy:__**
 * One out of evry five Americans lived in poverty
 * Many of the nation poorest wer in cities
 * Fewer people remained in the city to pay taxes for such services as garbage collection, firefighting, and road repair
 * most effected were African Americans and Latinos (who could not afford homes in the surburbs)
 * many critics worried that Americans were forced to fulfill the suburb life
 * Movie attendance plummeted as more and more people stayed home to watch TV
 * poets and writers (not all) protested about the "shallowness and comformity of Americans society."