During the Great depression, America’s economy crumbled causing money to be worthless, many to go years without jobs and unable to support their families, and many to become homeless and have to live in hard conditions because of the lack of resources and money, as well known, it was one of the hardest times in American history. As America healed from The Great Depression, and with the economy starting to stabilize again, the US started facing its new challenge of shaping social values and conflicts throughout the society. When looking back at the 1950’s, the first image that comes to mind is the “American dream” and “ideal family life” which was constantly pounded into people’s minds through advertisement and media. Throughout the articles, …show more content…
To start off, as the suburbs were described and built, the first viewpoint that I will discuss was the prediction of how these new city sections would outplay was that they would decrease status divisions. The “suburbs” were at first just another new healing strategy to help with leftover scars from the war. After the Great Depression, leading into the 1940’s, many began to get jobs again yet still were struggling and could not afford a home making the lack of shelter one of America’s biggest problems. By the 1950’s these groups of put together homes were the lifesaving answer to everyone’s problems! William Levitt along with his father and brother were the genius minds behind this entire operation with the construction of the first suburb which left everyone speechless because instead of crumbling under all the pressure like most, “Levitt took advantage of the housing crisis” (MAS 239). After years of downfall and failure, this new innovation was impressing almost every American around and with the new advertisement, positivity towards this project also spread very fast. Throughout the last global years, it was commonly accepted that social status and the desire for more social power rooted from the idea of some having an advantage in life or having