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U.S. history Ch 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| GI Bill of Rights: | a name given to the service members’ readjustment act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans. |
| Suburb: | a residential town or community near a City. |
| Harry S. Truman: | suddenly became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945. |
| Dixiecrat: | one of the southern delegates who, to protest president Truman’s civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 democratic national convention and formed the states’ Rights democratic party. |
| Fair Deal: | President Harry S. Truman’s economic program-an extension of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal-that Included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families. |
| Conglomerate: | a major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses. |
| Franchise: | a business that has bought the right to use a parent company’s name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations. |
| Baby boom: | the sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II. |
| Dr. Jonas Salk: | he developed a vaccine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis (polio). |
| Consumerism: | a preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods. |
| Planned obsolescence: | the designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently. |
| Mass media: | the means of communication-such as television, newspapers, and radio-that reach large audiences. |
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC): | an agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting. |
| Beat movement: | a social and artistic moment of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture. |
| Rock ‘n’ roll: | form of American music that evolved in the 1950s from rhythm and blues, country, jazz, gospel, and pop; this musical form spread worldwide having significant impacts on dancing, clothing, and expressions of protest. |
| Jazz: | a style of music characterized by the use of improvisation. |
| Urban renewal: | the tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods. |
| Bracero: | a Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during World War II. |
| Termination policy: | the U.S. government’s plan, announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American Tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands. |
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