Term | Definition |
1. demobilization | sending home members |
2. GI Bill of Rights | to help deal with anxiety, the federal government enacted a law popularly |
3. Baby Boom | population boost |
4. productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed continued to improve, largely because of new technology |
5. Taft-Hartley Act | a law that outlawed the closed shop a policy a workplace in which only union members could get hired |
6. Fair Deal | a far raging legislation program |
7. Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nations major cities |
8. information industry | those who built or operated the first computers |
9. franchise business | allows a company to distribute its Franchises its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators |
10. multinational corporation | companies that produced and sold their goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad |
11. AFL-CIO | the AFL and the CIO split in the mid 1930s united to form |
12. California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges |
13. consumerism | buying as much as they could, much of it on credit |
14. median family income | average family income, rose from $3,319 to $5,417 |
15. nuclear family | a household consisting of a mother and father and their children, as the backbone of American society |
16. rock-and-roll | Freed planted the seed for a cultural revolution that would blossom in the mid-1950s |
17. beatnik | a small group of artist and writers |
18. inner city | more of the middle class decided to move to the suburbs |
19. urban renewal | Federal, state, and local governments tried to reverse the downward trend in American cities |
20. termination policy | a major change in the rules governing Native Americans |