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chapter 17 vocab
Term | Definition |
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demobilization | sending home members of the army. |
gi bill of rights | eased the return of ww2 veterans by providing education and employment aid. |
baby boom | increase in births between 1945 and 1964. |
productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services performed. |
taft-hartley act | a law that restricted the power of labor unions. |
fair deal | president truman's program to expand new deal reforms. |
interstate highway act | 1956 law that authorized the spending of 32 billion to build 41000 miles of highway. |
sunbelt | name given to the south and the southwest. |
service sector | businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods. |
information industry | businesses that provide informational services. |
franchise business | allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators. |
multinational corp. | companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world. |
afl-cio | in 1955 the american federation of labor and the congress of industrial organization labor unions united. |
california master plan | called for three tiers of higher education, research universities, state colleges, and community college, all of which were to be accessible to all of 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 a father, mother, and children. |
rock and roll | music orginated in the gospel and blues traditions of african americans. |
beatnik | small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of american society. |
inner city | the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live. |
urban renewal | govt. programs for redevelopment of urban areas. |
termination policy | ended all programs monitored by the bureau of indian affairs, also ended federal responsibilities for health and welfare of native americans. |