Chapter 17 Vocab
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| 1. Demobilzation | sending home members of the army.
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| 2. GI Bill of Rights | eased the return of WW11 veterans by providing education and employment aid.
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| 3. Baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964.
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| 4. Productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed.
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| 5. Taft-Hartley Act | a law that restricted the power of labor unions.
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| 6. Fair Deal | president Turman's program to expand New Deal reforms.
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| 7. Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway.
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| 8. Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest.
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| 9. Service Sector | bussinesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods.
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| 10. Information industry | businesses that provided informational services.
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| 11. Franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators.
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| 12. Multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world.
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| 13. AFL-CIO | in 1955, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) labor unions united.
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| 14. California Master Plan | called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were to be accessible to all of the state's citizens.
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| 15. Consumerism | large-scale buying, most of it on credit.
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| 16. Median family income | measure of average family income.
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| 17. Nuclear family | ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children.
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| 18. Rock-and-roll | music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans.
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| 19. Beatnik | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society.
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| 20. Inner city | the older; central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live.
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| 21. Urban renewal | governament programs for redevelopment of urban areas.
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| 22. Termination policy | ended all programs monitored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans.
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