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US Hist Chapter 14
US Hist Chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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1. closed shop | an agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members |
2. right-to-work law | a law making it illegal to require employees to join a union |
3. union shop | a business that requires employed to join a union |
4. dynamic conservation | a policy of balancing economic conservatism with some activism in other areas |
5. baby boom | a marked rise in birthrate, such as occurred in the United States following world war II |
6. white-collar job | a job in a field not requiring work clothes or protective clothing, such as sales |
7. blue-collar worker | a worker who performs manual labor, particularly work that requires protective clothing |
8. multinational corporation | large corporation with overseas investments |
9. franchise | the right or license to market a company's goods or services in an area, such as a store of a chain operation |
10. rock 'n' roll | popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent, heavily accented beat, much repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements |
11. generation gap | a cultural separation between parents and their children |
12. poverty line | a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor by the federal government |
13. urban renewal | government programs that attempt to eliminate poverty and revilatize urban areas |
14. termination policy | a government policy to bring native Americans into mainstream society by withdrawing recognition of Native American groups as legal entities |
15. juvenile delinquency | antisocial or criminal behavior of young people |