Mr. Pettit
APUSH
THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES: POLITICS AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE U.S.A.
Historians tend to portray the 1950s as a decade of prosperity, conformity, and
consensus, and the 1960s as a decade of turbulence, protest, and
disillusionment. Do you agree or disagree with this view? In answering this
question, address to what extent these two decades differed from each other
politically and socially.
IDEAS AND EVENTS FROM THE 1950’s
and 1960’S
Growth of the suburbs
Interstate Highway system
Montgomery bus boycott
Brown v. Board of Education
Birth of Rock and Roll Music
Vietnam War protests
Popularity of television
Service sector jobs
The Great Society
JFK’s assassination
Black Power
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Watts Riots
Integration of Central High School, in
Little Rock, AK
Counterculture/hippies
Medicare/Medicaid
Miranda v. Arizona
The Delano Grape Strike
Answer question with thesis statement below…