50'sPlusorMinus

50's Plus or Minus
 * 1) LaVern Baker begins to play a part in the popular music such as "Tweedlee Dee"
 * 2) Increase in immigration from Mexico illegally. Braceros found jobs with low wages and hard conditions
 * 3) Create Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by Eisenhower
 * 4) Congress passes the Highway Act of 1956 for 41,000 miles of highway
 * 5) Baby boom: families had more babies
 * 6) Huge increase in suburbs and more shopping centers and movie theaters
 * 7) People began moving east and west: California or New York
 * 8) One out of every five Americans lived in poverty
 * 9) Few people remained in the city to pay taxes for garbage, firefighting and road repair
 * 10) Expand Social Security Eisenhower
 * 11) Many people were happy about suburbs; they were safe and a place to raise children
 * 12) Popular magazines, films and television praise women for their roles as homemakes
 * 13) Economy was BOOMING!
 * 14) I love Lucy came on with Lucille Ball
 * 15) Rock n' roll began becoming extremely famous
 * 16) People such as Chuck Berry, Little Richard became famous
 * 17) Allen Ginsberg led poets and writers as what they saw as the shallowness of American society
 * 18) JFK defeats Eisenhower in the election of 1960; first catholic president and debates
 * 19) Elvis Presley became famous!
 * 20) Fear of Communism with the Red Scare
 * 21) McCarthy who claims that 250 people are supposedly communist
 * 22) Duck and Cover with Russia having an atomic bomb
 * 23) FALLOUT SHELTERS WITH FOOD
 * 24) HUAC tested people if they were communists
 * 25) Housing Industry booms!
 * 26) Huge consumer goods such as soap and automobiles were bought