Were+the+50's+really+Happy+Days?


 * Positive**
 * Eisenhower kept many of the New Deal policies going including expanding Social Security and created the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * U.S. gained almost 30 million people in population due to the baby boom.
 * Suburbs were developed which expanded businesses
 * white people in suburbs lived a very prosperous life.
 * big economic boom
 * rock and roll became the new popular type of music.
 * JFK was elected
 * JFK was the first catholic pres.
 * Negative**
 * one out of 5 people lived in property
 * many moved out of cities so there weren't as many people to pay taxes to pay for public works which affected blacks and latinos because they couldn't afford to move to the suburbs
 * a lot of illegal immigration
 * women had limited job opputunities in the suburbs
 * life was very dull in the '50's during the Eisenhower era
 * people felt like they had to conform to society