Chapter 16

Section 3

Warm Up:

How has TV influenced your life?

TV & American Life

1950- 9% of U.S. homes have Televisions

1951- coast to coast live broadcasts begins

1954- NBC & CBS begin color broadcasting. 1% of households own color TV. TV Guide first published

1960- 87% of U.S. households have TV. First televised presidential debate

TV & American Life

I Love Lucy Army-McCarthy Hearings

American BandstandMilton Berle Show

Watch: The Twilight Zone

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Given what you know about the 1950’s…. Who do you think the monsters

on Maple St. represent? Why are they depicted as aliens?

Technological Developments

Transistors and Computers

First computers used thousands of vacuum tubes

Took up hundreds of feet of floor space

Required large amounts of electricity

Vacuum Tubes

Technological Developments Transistor developed

by Bell Laboratories in 1947

Performed same function as a tube, much smaller

In 1958, Scientist developed the Integrated Circuit (computer chip) contains a number of transistors and other components

Allowed electronics to be smaller and cheaper

Technological Developments

Salk Vaccine Vaccine - Uses killed or

weakened form of a germ to help body build defenses against that germ

Jonas Salk developed a polio vaccine in 1952

Read- The Development of the Suburbs

Warm Up:

How has the development of the suburbs changed America?

The Suburbs

Levittown, NY Based on

affordability Mass construction

of homes- Assembly line

techniques Purchased with

assistance of GI Bill Refused to sell

homes to African Americans

The Suburbs

The Sunbelt U.S. population began to shift Western and Southern portions of

the nation Air conditioningCalifornia population 1950- 10.5 million 2010- 37 million

The art of rebellion

Art of the 1950’s stressed rebellion against social norms

Marlon BrandoJames Dean

The art of rebellion

Elvis Presley

The art of rebellion

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion”