Emma continued her study of the 1950's today as we talked about the creation of the nuclear family, the creation of the suburbs and the economic prosperity that followed WWII. We discussed several aspects of suburban life including housing, transportation, the creation of the supermarket, the rapid expansion of the use of chemicals in daily life (food preservation, cleaning, etc). We also looked at numerous maps regarding population expansion and immigration. We talked about how the life we have in modern America has changed since the 1950s.