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Chapter 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1)demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| 2)GI bill or rights | eased the return to WW2 veterans 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 service performed |
| 5)Taft-Hartley Act | law that outlawed the close shop- work place where only union members can hired |
| 6)Fair Deal | Pres. Truman's program to extend the new deal |
| 7)Interstate highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting multilane expressways that would correct the nations major cities |
| 8)Sunbelt | name given to the southern and western states |
| 9)Service Sector | business that provided service , such as health care, law, retail, banking, or insurance than in the manufacturing sector |
| 10)Info industries | business that provide informational service |
| 11)Franchise businesses | allows a company to distribute its products or service through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| 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, the American federation of labor (AFL) and the congress of Industrial Organization |
| 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 states citizens |
| 15)Consumerism | buying as much as they could, much of it of it on credit |
| 16)Median family income | average family income |
| 17)Nuclear family | household consisting of a mother ,father and their children as the backbone of American society |
| 18)Rock and roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African American |
| 19)beatniks | (the beats) small groups of writers and artists in the 1960's who were critical of American society |
| 20)Inner City | the older, Central pert of a city with crowed neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority |
| 21)Urban renewal | gov't 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 American |
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