Unit 5: Post WWII - Liberalism and Conservatism - Domestic Policy

1. Unit 5: Post WWII - Liberalism and Conservatism - Domestic Policy Learning Targets 1 - 22

2. 1. I can describe how Levittown transformed suburbia. • Levittown • name of four large suburban developments • created by William Levitt • built post-WWII for returning veterans and their new families • alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments • guaranteed by the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Association (FHA) • modeled in an assembly line manner • thousands of identical homes were produced • standard white picket fence, green lawn, and modern era kitchen with appliances • sales began in March 1947 • 1,400 homes had been bought within the first three hours

6. 1. I can describe how Levittown transformed suburbia. • Levittown • conformity • businessmen, housewives, martini lunches, PTA, Little League, • consumerism • furniture, appliances, automobiles, televisions, • mass transit systems • trains, buses, highways,

7. 2. I can explain the effect of planned obsolescence on consumerism. • planned obsolescence • the designing of products to wear out or become outdated quickly • term for products designed to break easily or to quickly go out of style • people feel need to replace their possessions frequently

14. 2. I can explain the effect of planned obsolescence on consumerism. • planned obsolescence • effects: • generate jobs in the economy • facilitates rapid overuse/abuse of natural resources • frustration of product break-downs • creation of product-warranty system

15. 3. I can compare and contrast the life of women in the 1950’s to prior decades.

16. 3. I can compare and contrast the life of women in the 1950’s to prior decades.

17. 4. I can identify key people during the Civil Rights Movement.

18. 4. I can identify key people during the Civil Rights Movement. • Rosa Parks • Montgomery Bus Boycott

19. 4. I can identify key people during the Civil Rights Movement. • Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

20. 4. I can identify key people during the Civil Rights Movement. • Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • “I Have A Dream” - 1963

21. 4. I can identify key people during the Civil Rights Movement. • Malcolm X • Nation of Islam

22. 5. I can compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X

23. 5. I can compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X • Pastor of Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church, Atlanta • Founded Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Led Montgomery Bus Boycott • Advocated non-violent civil disobedience • Publicly opposed Vietnam War • Assassinated by James Earl Ray, Memphis, 1968 • Minister of Nation of Islam • Advocated “Black Nationalism” • Advocated self-defense • “by any means necessary” • Trip to Mecca • Organized “Organization of African-American Unity • Assassinated at Apollo Theater, Harlem, 1965

25. 6. I can explain the purpose of the Black Panthers. • a militant African-American political organization • formed in 1966 • by Huey Newton & Bobby Seale • to fight police brutality • to provide services in the ghetto • seek full employment • provide decent housing • advocated violence to achieve what was long denied to A-A’s: • fair treatment, civil rights, • equal opportunity

26. Bobby Seale Huey Newton

27. 7. I can discuss what happened to Emmett Till. • Emmett Till

28. 7. I can discuss what happened to Emmett Till. • Emmett Till - 1955 • 14 year-old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois • visiting his relatives in Mississippi • murdered after reportedly flirting with a white woman • 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant • Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam • transported him to a barn, beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River • his mother, who had raised him mostly by herself, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing

30. 7. I can discuss what happened to Emmett Till. • Emmett Till • increased black support and white sympathy for civil rights • focused scrutiny on the condition of black civil rights in Mississippi • Bryant and Milam were acquitted of Till's kidnapping and murder • months later, protected against double jeopardy … • … they admitted to killing him!

33. 8. I can explain Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. • Linda Brown • 12 year old • suit to allow her to attend a school 7 blocks away • rather than a mile through railway switchyard • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas - 1954 • overturned “separate but equal” doctrine • established by Plessy vs. Ferguson – 1896 • subsequent case ordered “desegregation” with “all deliberate speed!”

34. Thurgood Marshall

37. 9. I can identify major civil rights legislation. • Civil Rights Act – 1964 • banned segregation in public accommodations • schools, restaurants, hotels, lunch counters, theaters, restrooms, drinking fountains

42. 9. I can identify major civil rights legislation. • Twenty-fourth Amendment – 1964 • Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax • interpretation: outlawed the poll tax!

46. 9. I can identify major civil rights legislation. • Voting Rights Act - 1965 • outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S. • outlawed literacy tests in order to register to vote • a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African Americans from exercising the franchise • signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson

48. 9. I can identify major civil rights legislation. • Shelby County v. Holder • SCOTUS overturns key provision of Voting Rights Act • http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/25/19132385-supreme-court-strikes-down-part-of-voting-rights-act?lite

49. 9. I can identify major civil rights legislation. • Civil Rights Act – 1968 • provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin • banned discrimination in housing • addressing issue of “Sundown Towns”