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Chapter 17

Chapter 17 Vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
Demobilization Sending home members, of the army.
GI Bill of Rights Granted veterans a variety of benefits.
Baby Boom When many families started families.
Productivity The rate at which goods are produced or services performed.
Taft-Hartley Act Outlawed the closed shop.
Fair Deal Would strengthen existing New Deal reforms and establish new programs.
Interstate Highway Act Authorized funds to build highways consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nation's major cities.
Sunbelt Name for the southern and western states.
Service Sector Businesses that provide services than in the manufacturing sector.
Information Industry Businesses that provided information.
Franchise Business Allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators.
Multinational Corporation Companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad.
AFL-CIO Unification of the AFL and the CIO.
California Master Plan Called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges.
Consumerism Buying as much as they can, mostly on credit.
Median Family Income Average family income.
Nuclear Family A household consisting of a mother, father, and their kids.
Benjamin Spock His book 'Common Sense Book of Baby and Child' was the best-selling book of the era.
Rock-and-Roll Music that was once called 'Race' music.
Elvis Presley Integrated African American gospel tunes into his music.
Beatnik The beats.
Inner City Area of the suburbs that most middle-classed families moved to.
Urban Renewal Government cleared large tracts of older housing and built freeways and developments that would "revitalize" downtown areas.
Termination Policy Sought to end tribal government and to relocate Native Americans to the nation's cities.
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