Chapter 29

  • Mid-term elections

    Republicans won both houses of congress
  • Levittown

    The first Levittown was built
  • Segregation ended in Armed Forces

  • WOO!

    minumun wage raised from 40 to 75 cents
  • Baby Boom!

  • Gwendolyn Brooks wins Pulitzer Prize

  • UNIVAC

  • See It Now!

  • McD's Golden Arches

  • Brown v. board of education

  • Rosa Parks

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Antipolio

  • Interstate Highway Act of 1956

  • Eisenhower defeats stevenson

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Charles Von Duren Cheats

  • College Sit-in

  • SNCC