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VOCAB 17
Term | Definition |
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1. Demobilization | sending home members of the army |
2. GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of world war II vets by providing education and employment aid |
3. Baby Boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
4. Productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed |
5. Taft-Hartley Act | a law that restricted the power of labor unions |
6. Fair Deal | President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
7. Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41000 miles of highway |
8. Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest |
9. Service Sector | businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
10. Information Industry | businesses that provide informational services |
11. Franchise Business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
12. Multinational Corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world |
13. AFL-CIO | in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united |
14. 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 |
15.Consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
16. Median Family Income | measure of average family income |
17. Nuclear Family | ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children |
18. Rock-and-Roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans |
19. Beatnik | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society |
20. Inner City | the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live |
21. Urban Renewal | government programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
22. Termination Policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans. |