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Ch. 17 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Demobilization | act of changing from war to peace including disbanding or discharging troops |
| GI Bill Of Rights | any of the Congressional bills enacted to provide funds for college educations, home-buying loans, and other benefits for armed-services veterans. |
| baby boom | a period of sharp increase in the birthrate |
| productivity | the rate at which goods and services having exchange value are brought forth or produced |
| Taft-Hartley Act | an eighty-day injunction against strikes that endanger public health and safety and bans closed shops, featherbedding, secondary boycotts, jurisdictional strikes, and certain other union practices. |
| Fair Deal | the principles of the liberal wing of the Democratic party under the leadership of President Harry S Truman, consisting largely of a continuation and development of the principles of the New Deal. |
| Interstate Highway Act | authorized the construction of 40,000 miles of interstate highways in the US. |
| Sunbelt | the southern and southwestern region of the U.S. |
| service sector | The portion of the economy that produces intangible goods. |
| information industry | Industries that are information intensive in one way or the other |
| franchise business | An agreement between a firm and another party in which the firm provides the other party with the right to use the firm's name and to sell or rent its products. |
| multinational corporation | a corporation that is registered in more than one country or that has operations in more than one country. |
| AFL-CIO | The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| California Master Plan | set up a coherent system for postsecondary education which defined specific roles for the already-existing University of California |
| consumerism | protection of consumers' rights: the protection of the rights and interests of consumers, especially with regard to price, quality, and safety |
| median family income | The amount which divides the income distribution into two equal groups, half having income above that amount, and half having income below that amount. |
| nuclear family | unit of parents with their children: a social unit that consists of a mother, a father, and their children. |
| rock-and-roll | pop music with heavy beat: pop music derived from blues music that has heavily stressed beats. |
| beatnik | somebody who rejects conventional ideas, dress, and social conventions in the 1950s |
| inner city | the central or innermost parts of a city, particularly when associated with social problems such as inadequate housing and high levels of crime and unemployment |
| urban renewal | redevelopment of urban areas |
| termination policy | terminated the U.S. government's recognition of sovereignty of tribes, trusteeship of Indian reservations, and exclusion of Indians from state laws. |
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