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Automobiles are not all good though. More deaths occur with the automobiles due to accidents and stress levels rise due to traffic jams. Poor people were left in the cities without transportation because public transportation declined after people moved to the suburbs. The gap between suburban and urban people and between the middle and the lower class widen.

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With the development of suburbs the need for automobiles rose. Most places were no longer in walking distance and there was no public transportation. With the use of cars, many people moved to the suburbs and left the cities and soon after businesses followed along with the jobs they provided.

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Due to the rationing of gasoline during the war the prices went down once the war was over.
In response, new car sales rose from 6.7 million in 1950 to 7.9 million in 1955. The total number of private cars on the road jumped from 40 million in 1950 to over 60 million in 1960.

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International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT), whose original business was communications, bought car-rental companies, insurance companies, and hotel and motel chains.

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A conglomerate is a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries.

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McDonald’s, for example, was a franchise that began when the McDonald brothers developed a very efficient service, based on assembly-line methods, at their small drive-in restaurant in California.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QIuXv7Y8QA4

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http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/cars-ads-1950s

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A franchise is a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.

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How did Business Expansion Affect the American Image?

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How did Business Expansion Affect the American Image?

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During the 1950s, businesses expanded rapidly. The majority of Americans now held higher-paid, white-collar positions, rather than blue-collar positions.

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This act was signed by
President  Eisenhower in 1956 that allowed the United States to begin the production of highways.
It effected the United States economically and socially. It's positive effects were as listed: decreased the use of railroads, towns along highways prospered, unified the nation, provided jobs. It's negative impacts are as listed: towns along the older roads experienced hardship, traffic jams, a lot of accidents, the poor were left jobless in their cities while the more wealthy people migrated to the suburbs, the economic gulf between the middle class and lower class widened.