What was one effect of the popularity of suburbia in the1950s? select one of the options below as your a. whites moved out of the cities, taking their wealth with them. b. housing prices shot up, and soon the middle class could not afford to live there. c. women, who weren’t working 9 to 5, became important players in town politics. d. light rail train systems sprang up to transport people between city and suburb. e. automobiles became more expensive because demand was very high

The correct answer to this question is A) whites move out of the cities, taking their wealth with them.

One effect of the popularity of suburbia in the 1950s was that whites move out of the cities, taking their wealth with them.

In the 1950s many Americans could afford a house, a car and many commodities that were suppressed since the Great Depression and during World War II. Many whites move out of the cities, taking their wealth with them. Downtown in the big cities looked abandoned until business offices started to appear there. They wanted to leave the decaying cities and avoid racial problems. They even had one or two children because they had the money to support a family and education for kids.

b, the anti immigrant fervor