Question | Answer |
1. Demobilization | sending members of an army home |
2. GI Bill of Rights | gave benefits to veterans |
3. Baby Boom | when many couples decided to have families after the men returned from war |
4. Productivity | the rate at whitch goods are produced or services are preformed |
5. Taft-Hartley Act | banned closed shops or places where only union members could be hired |
6. Fair Deal | far ranging legislation program |
7. Interstate Highway Act | authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of interstate and highways |
8. Sunbelt | southern and western states |
9. Service Sector | business that provided services such as health care, law, retail, banking, or insurance |
10. Information Industry | people who worked on computers |
11. Fanchise Buisness | business that allows its products to be sold in retail outlets by independent owners |
12. Multinational Nation | companies that produced and sold goods all over the world |
13. AFL-CIO | when the AFL and the CIO united |
14. California Master Plan | made three tiers of higher education, research universities, state colleges, and community colleges |
15. Consumerism | buying as much as you could |
16. Median Family Income | range of income between $3,319 and $5,417 |
17. Nuclear Family | a household consisting of a mother, father, and children |
18. Rock-and-Roll | "race" music broadcasted to listeners |
19. Beatnik | people who refused to accept new ways of life |
20. Inner City | places where crime went up, downtown areas |
21. Urban Renewal | the governments way of getting people back into the cities |
22. Termination Policy | end tribal government and relocate Native Americans to other parts of the nation |