Chapter 17 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
demobilization | sending home members of the army |
GI Bill of Rights | the return of WWII veterans by providing education and employment aid |
baby boom | increase in birth between 1945 and 1964 |
productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or service performed |
Taft-Hartley Act | law that restricted the power of labor unions |
Fair Deal | Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms |
Interstate Highway Act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of 32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway |
Sunbelt | name given to the region of states in the S. and SW. |
service sector | business that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
information industry | businesses that provide informational serviced |
franchise business | allow company to distribute its product or services through retail outlets owned by operators |
multinational corporation | companies that produce and sell their good and services all over the world |
AFL-CIO | 1955 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization labor unions united |
California Master Plan | called the three tires of higher education: research universities, state college, and community colleges, which was accessible to all the states' citizens |
consumerism | large-scale buying, much of it on credit |
median family income | measure of average family income |
nuclear family | ideal or typical household with father, mother, and children |
rock-and-roll | originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans |
beatnik | small group of writers and artist in 1950s who were critical of American society |
inner city | the older, center part of a city with neighborhoods in which low-income usually minority groups live |
urban renewal | government programs for redevelopment of urban areas |
termination policy | ended all programs by the Bureau of Indians Affairs |
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