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Chapter Seventeen Vocabulary U.S. History

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1. demobilization: sending home members of the army.
2. GI Bill of Rights: eased the return of World War 2 vetrans by providing education and employment aid.
3. baby boom: increase in births between 1945 and 1964
4. productivity: the rate at which goods are produced or services performed.
5. Taft-Hartley Act: a law that restricted the power of labor unions.
6. Fair Deal: President Truman's program to expand New Deal reforms.
7. Interstate Highway Act: 1956 law that authorized the spending of $32 billion to build 41,000 miles of highway.
8. Sunbelt: name given to the region of states in the South and the Southwest.
9. service sector: businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods.
10. information industry: businesses that provide informational services.
11. franchise business: allows company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators.
12. multinational corporation: companies that produce and sell their goods and services all over the world.
13. AFL-CIO: in 1955 the American Federation of Labor(AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organization(CIO) labor unions united.
14. California Master Plan: called for three tiers of higher education: research universities, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which were accessible to all of the state's citizens.
15. consumerism: large-scale buying, most of it on credit.
16. median family income: measure of average family income.
17. nuclear family: ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children.
18. Benjamin Spock: a best-selling author of the era.
19. rock-and-roll: music originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans.
20. Elvis Presley: set off the new rock craze upon his arrival.
21. beatnik: small group of writers and artists in the 1950s and early 1960s who were critical of American society.
22. inner city: the older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups, live.
23. urban renewal: government programs for redevelopment of urban areas.
24. termination policy: ended all programs monitored by the Breau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of Native Americans.
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