The American Dream in the 1950s

1. Baby Boom
This gave companies when the babies grew up a huge number of workers and this could boost the U.S. economy by allowing more work to be done. This also helped certain industries to go finacially and for more public schools to be opened.
2. Dr. Jonas Salk
He helped create the polio vaccine that helped kids not contract polio so that not many people were effected by the disease.
3. Interstate Highway System
This allowed people to get where they needed to go much faster. This also helped suburban communities start growing farther away from the cities.
4. Franchise
This made it so big companies could keep putting their businesses different places. Also it gave owners the right to use their parent companies name for their establishment.
5. In a paragraph, describe in detail how Americans spent their leisure time in the 1950s
Americans spent their leasure time in many different ways. Some activly played sports such as baseball, basketball, and football. Also people started going to more of the proffesional level games. American also started becoming avid readers.