module 6 notes

lesson 1

postwar boom

• gi bill of rights: aka the servicemen’s readjustment act of 1944, helped returning veterans secure education and access to home purchases at government expense

• organized labor had prosperity, many working class americans had salaries that placed them in the middle class

• unions peaked in 1950s

• economic boom came baby boom

• builder william levitt took advantage of housing boom and made levittowns in the suberbs of new york and philadelphia, sold for under 10 grand and no down payment for veterans