Chapter 17 Vocabulary
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| Demobilization | Sending members of the army home.
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| GI Bill of Rights | Provided WW2 veterans with education and employment aid.
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| Baby Boom | Increase in birth (1945-1965).
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| Productivity | The rate @ which goods are produced and services preformed.
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| Taft-Harley Act | Restricts the power of labor unions.
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| Fair Deal | Truman's program to expand New Deal forms.
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| Interstate Highway Act | Authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41K miles of highway (1956).
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| Sunbelt | Name given to the region of states to the South and Southwest.
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| Service Sector | Business that provides services rather than manufactured goods.
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| Information Industry | Businesses that provides informational services.
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| Franchise Business | Allows company to distribute products/services through reatail outlets owned by independent operators.
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| Multinational Corporation | Companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world.
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| AFL-CIO | Unite in 1955
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| California Master Plan | Offering education to all of the citizens.
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| Consumerism | Large-scale buying on credit.
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| Median Family Income | Measure of average family income.
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| Nuclear Family | Ideal/typical household with a mom, dad, and children.
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| Rock-and-Roll | Music orginated in the gospel blues tradition of African Americans.
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| Beatnik | Small group of writers and artists who were critical of Americam society (1955-1964).
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| Inner City | Old part of the city with crowded neighbors; where low income minorities live.
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| Urban Renewal | Gov't programs for redevelopment of urban areas.
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| Termination Policy | Ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; ended fed. responsiblity for the health and welfare of Native Americans.
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