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Vocabulary
Chapter 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Demobilization | sending members of an army home |
| 2. GI Bill of Rights | gave benefits to veterans |
| 3. Baby Boom | when many couples decided to have families after the men returned from war |
| 4. Productivity | the rate at whitch goods are produced or services are preformed |
| 5. Taft-Hartley Act | banned closed shops or places where only union members could be hired |
| 6. Fair Deal | far ranging legislation program |
| 7. Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of interstate and highways |
| 8. Sunbelt | southern and western states |
| 9. Service Sector | business that provided services such as health care, law, retail, banking, or insurance |
| 10. Information Industry | people who worked on computers |
| 11. Fanchise Buisness | business that allows its products to be sold in retail outlets by independent owners |
| 12. Multinational Nation | companies that produced and sold goods all over the world |
| 13. AFL-CIO | when the AFL and the CIO united |
| 14. California Master Plan | made three tiers of higher education, research universities, state colleges, and community colleges |
| 15. Consumerism | buying as much as you could |
| 16. Median Family Income | range of income between $3,319 and $5,417 |
| 17. Nuclear Family | a household consisting of a mother, father, and children |
| 18. Rock-and-Roll | "race" music broadcasted to listeners |
| 19. Beatnik | people who refused to accept new ways of life |
| 20. Inner City | places where crime went up, downtown areas |
| 21. Urban Renewal | the governments way of getting people back into the cities |
| 22. Termination Policy | end tribal government and relocate Native Americans to other parts of the nation |