5 Ch.30 Sections -- The Girls' Third Period AP US History Notes

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Date Posted: 18:22:04 03/11/03 Tue
Author: *MaLlOrY*
Subject: 5 Ch.30 Sections

*Sources of Economic Growth*
A. Government Spending
1. Public funding of schools, housing,veterans' benefits, welfare, interstae highway
2. military spending
3. baby boom - population expanded

*Pesticides*
A. DDT (dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane)
1. discovered by Paul Muller in 1939
2. saved many crops from insects
3. protected people from typhus and malaria

*Suburban Family*
A. Prevailing Gender Roles Rienforced
1. women were increasingly isolated from the workplace
2. men thought it was demeaning for wives to work
B. Dr. Benjamin Spock
1.1946 - wrote "Baby and Child Care"
a. taught parents to focus on childs' needs
C. Feminism Weakened
1. woem became involved with the League of Women Voters, the Red Cross, YWCA, PTA

*Survival of Welfare State*
A. Federal Highway Act of 1956
1. Social Security was extended to 10 million people
2. unemployment compensation extended to 4 million people
3. minimum wage raised from 75 cents to $1.00
4. Highway Act
a. $25 billion for 10 year project
b. built over 40,000 miles of highway
B. 1956 Election
1. Eisenhower is elected again

*Rural Poverty*
A. Declining Agricultural Prices
1. farm population steadily decreased
2. enormous surpluses in basic staples
a. prices fell 33%
3. demand for cotton declined

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