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Chapter 17 Vocab US
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| GI Bill of Rights | granted veterans who were unable to find work |
| baby boom | married couples starting new families in the new econmy |
| productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed |
| Taft-Hartley Act | a law that outlawed the closed shop |
| Fair Deal | idea to strengthen existing New Deal reforms and establish new programs |
| Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nations major cities |
| sunbelt | the name given to the southern and western states |
| service sector | businesses that provide services in the manufacturing sector |
| information industry | new workforfce of white-collar jobs that was rapidly growing |
| franchise business | business that allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| multinational corporation | companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad |
| AFL-CIO | AFL and CIO joined together to form this unit |
| California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education |
| consumerism | buying as much as they could mainly on credit |
| median family income | average family income rose from 3319 to 5417 |
| nuclear family | or a household consisting of a mother and father and their children |
| rock-and-roll | revolutionary music that blossomed in the mid 1950s |
| beatnik | the beats |
| inner city | more of the middle class decided to move to the suburbs |
| urban renewal | attempt to reverse downward trend in American cities |
| termination policy | major change in the rules governing Native Americans |
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