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Chapter 17 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| 2.GI Bill of Rights | granted veterans a variety of benefits |
| 3.Baby Boom | soldiers made up for lost time by marrying and having children |
| 4.Productivty | rate at which goods are produced or services performed |
| 5.Taft-Hartley Act | law that allowed closed shop, workplace where only union members can be hired |
| 6.Fair Deal | strenghthen existing New Deal reforms and establish new programs like national health insurance |
| 7.Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nation's major cities |
| 8.Sunbelt | name given to the southern and western states |
| 9.Service Sector | businesses that provide services such as healthcare, law, retail, banking or insurance |
| 10.Information Industry | businesses that provide information services |
| 11.Franchise Business | company that offers similar services in many locaions |
| 12.Multinational Corporation | companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad |
| 13.AFL-CIO | in 1955, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united |
| 14.California Master Plan | 3 tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges |
| 15.Consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
| 16.Median Family Income | average family income |
| 17.Nuclear Family | household consisting of a mother and a father and their children as the backbone of American Society |
| 18.Benjamin Spock | wrote book on how to raise children; let them express themselves and don't hit them |
| 19.Rock-and-Roll | music originated in the gospel and blues tradition of African Americans |
| 20.Beatnik | small group of artists and writers or the beats |
| 21.Inner City | the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods where low-income usually minority groups |
| 22.Urban Renewal | government programs for redevelopmemt of urban areas |
| 23.Termination Policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, also ended federal responsibility for health and welfare of Native Americans |
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