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Levittown
The very
first suburbs
- usually close to the cities.
Jack Kerouac
wrote
On The Road
= rebels against the
sameness
in the world
The Beat Movement
People who
didn't follow
the
establishment
.
- dressed sloppily; started at coffee houses
Modern Republicanism
Liberal towards people but conservative when it comes to spending money
Highway Act of 1956
= Creates the
interstate highway system
.
- Purpose
: to evaluate the city
- idea after Cold war
-->
the major legislative achievement of Eisenhower's presidency
Earl Warren
Nominated for
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
and put on.
- turns out to be more
liberal
than conservative
Brown vs Board Education of Topeka
=
Integrating School Systems
- overturns courts position on segregation
-
John W Davis
argues for segregation
-
Thurgood Marshall
: Lawyer to argue
against segregation
= becomes
first black on Supreme Court
Orval Faubus
Governor of Little Rock Arkansas
who told president Eisenhower he wouldn't let 9 black children into Little Rock HS
- he closed down school at the end of the year and new governor William Jefferson Cliton reopens it
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Uses
peaceful confrontation
lead by MLK
Sputnik
artificial satellite
to orbit
Earth
launched by the Soviet Union
National Defense Education Act
= Money from federal government to schools to go to
math and physics
so we catch up to Soviets
-our action towards sputnik
-> We also created
NASA
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Chapter 29
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