Unit 7: Social Transformation by Aden https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs Made with Ade en-us 2017-03-09 19:39:49 UTC 2017-03-15 19:14:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Summarize the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights that occurred in the United States in the postwar period. 121439 https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/159109176 The Civil Rights Movement was a big step in black equality. Also people fought for women getting more rights. Black people wanted less segregation and more integration in things such as schools and transportation. Women fought against the idea of women being less than men.]]> 2017-03-09 19:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/159109176 Describe how American life in the postwar period was impacted by the postwar economic boom and by advances in science. 121439 https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/159794146 American life had changed dramatically because people had more money and more time so households had appliances such as vacuums and tv's. On March 26,1953 the vaccine for polio was tested and announced to be sucessful. ]]> 2017-03-13 18:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/159794146 Analyze the social and political effects of the continuing population flow from cities to suburbs, the internal migrations from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt, and the increase in immigration resulting from passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. 121439 https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/160355403 Suburbanization changed the social hierarchy of middle class citizens. With the more wealthy ones (usually white: White Flight) moving away from the crowded city life. They had more luxurious items such as personal cars in contrast to the public transit city dwellers usually spent their money on. State to state migration had spread culture around the country with music, food, and ways of living. Also the manufacturing abandonment of the Rust Belt caused job seekers to move to southern states. Also the massive increase of immigration from the Immigration ACt of 65' caused a lot social and economical unrest. Including the anti-immigrant way of thinking and the job competition with the middle to lower class ]]> 2017-03-15 19:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/121439/95hyh26xf1cs/wish/160355403