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Chapter 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| demobilization | sending home members of the army |
| GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of WWII veterans by providing education and employment aid |
| baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964 |
| productivity | rate at which goods are produced or services performed |
| Taft-Hartley Act | law that restricted the power of labor unions |
| Fair Deal | Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
| Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
| Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest |
| service sector | businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
| information industry | businesses that provide informational services |
| franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
| multinational corporation | comp. that produce or sell their goods and services internationally |
| AFL-CIO | in 1955 American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united |
| California Master Plan | called for 3 tiers of higher eductaion:research universities ,state colleges and community colleges , all of which were to be accessible to all of the state's citizens |
| consumerism | large scale buying usually on credit |
| median family income | measure of average family income |
| nuclear family | ideal typical household of father,mother,and children |
| Banjamin Spock | best selling book-Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. He emphazied the importance of nurturing children |
| rock and roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of A.A |
| Elivis Presley | integrated African American gospel tunes into the music he played.His first hit "Heartbreak Hotel" sold in the millions and he sparked popularity for rock music |
| beatnik | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who critical of American society |
| inner city | the older central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income,usually minority groups live |
| urban renewal | gov programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
| termintaion policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans |
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