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Page 1: Chapter 17 Section 2 Society on the Move. Interstate Highway Act 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

Chapter 17 Section 2

Society on the Move

Page 2: Chapter 17 Section 2 Society on the Move. Interstate Highway Act 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

Interstate Highway Act

1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway

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Sunbelt

Name given to the region of states in the south and the southwest

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Service Sector

Businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods

Such as healthcare, law, retail, banking, or insurance

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Information Industry

Businesses that provide informational services

Computers• ENIAC, first computer, took up 18,000

square feet, or the size of three basketball court

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Franchise Business

Allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators• Holiday Inn’s founded by Kemmons Wilson

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Multinational Corporation

Companies that produce and sell their goods all over the world• General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and

Coca Cola

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AFL-CIO

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united in 1955

First president, George Meany

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California Master Plan

Called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state’s citizens

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Post War Changes in U.S.

Society Economy Education

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Society

Growth of Suburbs Build affordable houses in a hurry Highways linked suburbs to cities

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Society

Increase in automobile ownership Ownership jumped from 26 million in

1945 to 60 million in 1960

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Society

Interstate highways Eisenhower funded for first major

highways Around 41,000 miles built

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Society

Family travel to national and state parks

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Society

Migration to the Sunbelt

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Society

Shifts in political representation• When people moved the political power went

with them

• The suburbs and sunbelt gained representation

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Economy

Service Economy

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Economy

Fewer people in manufacturing and farming

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Economy

Multinational corporations

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Economy

Franchise Businesses

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Economy

AFL-CIO

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Education

More people attended college

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Education

Federal people attended college

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Education

States boosted funding for public universities

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Education

California Master Plan

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Causes and Effects of Moving to the Sunbelt

Causes• Jobs in new industries

• Better Climate

• Housing Shortage Effects

• Population growth and the development of air conditioning

• Population growth and the development in political power

• Growth of suburbs

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Classwork

How did Americans living in the suburbs benefit from the “car culture”?

How did the Interstate Highway System spur the growth of the suburbs

In what ways did American businesses change during the postwar period?

How did American education change in the years following World War II?