The American Dream
By: Maddy Pocian
Politics
Interstate Act: Authorized the building of a nation wide network. This was a way for transportation. So they had to make the road ways big so that the tanks and bigger equipment to transport from one area to another area.
Newer looking interstates
This is are interstates now and we use them for regular transportation.
Interstate in construction
This is where they are building the interstate for big tanks so they line the tanks up so they know how wide they have to make.
Eisenhower Interstate System
This is a picture of Eisenhower and his crew that help build the interstates.
GI Bill
It allowed when the military to get more affordable housing and loans so that they can live in a descent house and go to school for they would provide payments for people to attend college. Which this lead to the baby boom and the suburb lifestyle. The baby boom started almost nine months after world war 2 they kept having babies because of the life style they had when they came back from war and when the baby boom tapered off there was 76.4 million baby boomers. The suburb lifestyle was when a bunch of house were built into suburbs and they were cheaper so soldiers were finding homes easier this way.