The Fifies

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The Fabulous Fifties Matrix

Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1950s:

|The Mickey Mouse Club |Ozzie and Harriett |

|Interstate highways |I Love Lucy |

|Dishwashers |Persistent poverty |

|Automobiles |Black urban migration |

|Hi-Fis and stereos |Urban renewal |

|Poodle skirts |Beatniks (beats) |

|Drive-in theaters |American Bandstand |

|Levittown |Elvis Presley |

|Dr. Spock |James Dean |

|Event |Significance |

|Levittown |This was the name of the four large suburban developments created in the United States of America by William |

| |Levitt and his company Levitt and Sons. |

|American |American Bandstand was created on the heels of the Rock and Roll craze but it also helped to thrust the music |

|Bandstand |into a whole new direction. It was an...