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Chapter 17 1.2.3.4
Chapter 17 Vocab
Number | Word | Definition | Stuff |
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1 | Baby Boom | Increase in births between 1945 and 1964. | AustinH16 |
2 | Productivity | The rate at which goods are produced or services preformed. | autino11 |
3 | Taft-Hartley Act | A law that restricted the power of labor unions. | 2nd Block |
4 | Fair Deal | President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms. | 4-22 |
5 | Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway. | |
6 | Sunbelt | Name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest. | |
7 | Service Sector | Businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods. | |
8 | Information Industry | Businesses that provide informational services. | |
9 | Franchise Business | Allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators. | |
10 | Multinational Corporation | Companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world. | |
11 | AFL-CIO | In 1955, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united. | |
12 | California Master Plan | Called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state's citizens. | |
13 | Consumerism | Large-scale buying, much of it on credit. | |
14 | Median Family Income | Measure of average family income. | |
15 | Nuclear Family | Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children. | |
16 | Rock-and-Roll | Music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of blacks. | |
17 | Beatnik | Small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society. | |
18 | Inner City | The older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live. | |
19 | Urban Renewal | Government programs for redevelopment of urban areas. | |
20 | Termination Policy | Ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans. | |
21 | Demobilization | Sending home members of he army. | |
22 | GI Bill of Rights | Eased the return of WW2 veterans by providing education and employment aid. |