Social Groups
Women Make New Goals
Time Period: WWII
Location: All across the United States
Cause: They replaced men who had gone to war.
Reason: During WWII vast supply of ammunition and goods put many women into work.
Result: Women were payed the same wage as men.
Significance: This was the first time in history that women had to do hard labor and leave home to work shifts.
Importance To Whom: All women across America
Americans Leave for the Suburbs
Time Period: 1950's
Location: All across the United States
Cause: Some working-class and middle-class white families felt pressure from increases in minority populations and overcrowding in cities.
Reason: More privacy and space.
Result: Many Americans successfully moved to the suburbs and happily lived their lives there.
Significance: Cities would be losing more and more people for business.
Importance to Whom: Americans
Suburbs
Construction on Levitown, a suburb in New York
Suburbs
Levitown when successfully constructed
Suburbs
New homes for middle class white Americans