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credit cards
Americans found the credit cards convenient and easy to use.
Lending agencies picked up the credit card idea and made borrowing easy. Just as installment plans of the 1920s encouraged consumers to purchase beyond their means, credit cards introduced in the 1950s encouraged similar spending. -
Youth rebelion
Teenageer started to rebel from their parrents and the conformity of others. They did this because they felt mis understoud. -
Rock-and-roll overwelmded the nation
A man named Alan Freed started hosting a radio show that played rhythm and blues music. The music mainly attracted black teenagers, but white teenagers enjoyed the sounds. When this happened parrents started to worrie about being comfortable with racial segregation. -
Color Tevelison was made
CBS was the first television company to have a color televison show. Although it was made it color people still saw it in black and white because they didnt have color TV's. Their show "Premiere" aired from 4:35 to 5:34 p.m. but it could only reached four cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Although the colors were not quite true to life, the first program was a success. -
vaccine for polio
Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Thomas Francis conducted a successful field test of a vaccine to prevent one of the most feared diseases—poliomyelitis. Before the vaccine, the disease, known commonly as polio, had killed or disabled more than 20,000 children in the United States. -
Rosa Parks on the bus
n December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. For doing this, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation. Rosa Parks' refusal to leave her seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. -
The first McDonalds
McDonald's was founded by Ray Kroc. This Out door drive throught restraunt start thr age of fast food for familes. This start qiuck and easy meals that familes could get for less. -
Disney opened
While his daughters enjoyed their repeated rides, Disney sat on park benches with the other parents who had nothing to do but watch. It was on these Sunday excursions that Walt Disney began to dream of an activity park that had things for both children and parents to do. -
NASA was Created
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, many Americans grew concerned that the United States was losing its competitive edge. Others feared a nuclear attack would soon follow. In 1958, the United States government responded by creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as an independent agency for space exploration. -
Alaska was made a state
Vitas Bering claimed the land for Russia in 1741 and Russian fur traders would enslave the Aleuts, or during the days past that folly of a transaction, in 1867, when the United States purchased the land for 2 cents per acre, a total of $7,200,000.
