Suburbia On America Essay

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The 1950s had it’s up and downs. The US economy grew a great amount following WWII. However, women were given stereotypes to portray, making a happy nuclear family and African Americans were segregated from the rest of the US citizens causing them to be left out. Therefore the growth of Suburbia had a negative impact socially, on America. The growth of Suburbia had a very big impact on the US’s economy positively. The GI Bill made a big difference to the soldiers coming back, it provided education, housing, and unemployment insurance. This helped out the soldiers coming back to have the good place to come back to and have a stable family. When people got the homes in the suburbs, they needed a way to travel to the city, known as the Interstate …show more content…

Women were given limited job opportunities that they could do, for example, teachers, nurses, secretaries, and etc. When WWII was happening women were given many more job opportunities because the men were gone to fight in the war, as soon as they came back women had to be housewives and were given certain jobs that they could possibly do. Women were also given many expectations, they should be married early, have lots of children, and should have a nuclear family. Women had to do everything around their husband’s schedule which made it hard for women to be social and have many friends. A song was written by Malvina Reynolds called, “Little Boxes” that showed that people were going to school and universities and they were call coming out the same from their jobs to their houses. In the song it says, “Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a pink one and a green one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same.” This shows what people were like in the 1950s and what women were going through, being a typical American housewife and

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