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Chapter 17 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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1. Demobilzation | sending home members of the army. |
2. GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of WW11 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 Turman'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 | bussinesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods. |
10. Information industry | businesses that provided informational services. |
11. Franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators. |
12. Multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world. |
13. AFL-CIO | in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united. |
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 state's citizens. |
15. Consumerism | large-scale buying, most 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 a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live. |
21. Urban renewal | governament programs for redevelopment of urban areas. |
22. Termination policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans. |