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chapter 17 vocab
chapter 17 vocab ( 24 words)
Question | Answer |
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1. demobilization | (demobilize) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service |
2. GI Bill of Rights | 1944, P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m) was an omnibus bill that provided college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s) as well as one year of unemployment compensation. |
3. baby boom | increase in birth between 1945 and 1964 |
4. productivity | the rate at which goods are produced or services preformed |
5. Taft-Harley Act | law that outlawed the closed shop, a workplace in which only union members can be hired |
6. Fair deal | far- ranging legislative program |
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 southern-west |
9. service sector | business that provide services rather than manufactured goods |
10. information industry | business 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 | organization of the democratic party |
14 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 state`s citizens |
15. consumerism | buying as much as they could, |
16. median family income | average family income,rose from $3,319 to $5,147 |
17. nuclear family | household consisting of a mother and father and their children. as the backbone of the American society |
18. Benjamin Spock | Arthur of best selling book COMMON SENSE BOOK OF BABY AND CHILD CARE |
19. rock-and-roll | type of music |
20. Elvis Presley | creator of rock-and-roll |
21. beatnik | small group of writers and artist in the 1950s and early1960s who were critical of american society |
22. inner city | he older, central part of the 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 Bureau of Indian Affairs; also ended federal responsibility for the health and welfare of indians |