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Ch. 17
Chapter 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| 2. GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of World War II 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 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 41,000 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 corporations | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world |
| 13. AFL-CIO | in 1955, the American Federation Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united. |
| 14. California Master Plan | called from 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 the 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 |