PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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41, 000 miles of highway were developed
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These highways encouraged new suburbs and urban sprawl in general
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Middle class families enjoyed road trip vacations to national parks
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Better Radio Stations
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Detailed explanation-1: -This act authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation’s history. Popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 established an interstate highway system in the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -An act to amend and supplement the Federal Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1956, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide additional revenue from taxes on motor fuel, tires, and trucks and buses; and for other purposes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Interstate Highway System-The Myths. President Eisenhower conceived the Interstate System. President Eisenhower supported the Interstate System because he wanted a way of evacuating cities if the United States was attacked by an atomic bomb. Defense was the primary reason for the Interstate System.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Clay Committee concluded its report by stating that the positive economic attributes of the highway system were the potential for economic growth and the well-being of the economy through “speedy, safe, transcontinental travel” that could improve “farm-to-market movement."