Ch 19 US history vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 demobilization | The postwar process of dismissing the troops from military service and dismantling the war machine |
| GI bill of rights | Law Passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education |
| baby boom | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II |
| productivity | the quality of being productive or having the power to produce |
| Taft-harley act | (1947) Forbids closed shop, permits states to bar union shop, allow temporary injunctions of strikes affecting national welfare |
| fair deal | An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress. |
| interstate highway act | 1956 Eisenhower 20 yr plan to build 41,000 mi of highway, largest public works project in history |
| sunbelt | The southern and southwestern states, from the Carolinas to California, characterized by warm climate and recently, rapid population growth |
| service sector | The sector of the economy that provides services--such as health care, banking, and education--contrast to the sector that produces goods. |
| information industry | businesses that provide informational services. In this industry one example are those who built or operated the first computers. |
| franchise business | allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators. |
| multinational corporation | An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management |
| AFL-CIO | 1955 two larger labor unions united. American Federation Labor- Congress of Industerial Organization. |
| 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. |
| consumerism | concentration on producing and distributing goods for a market which must constantly be enlarged |
| median family income | measure of average famuly income. One reason Americans spent more was that they had more money to spend. During the 1950s, median family income or average family income rose from $3,319 to $5,417. The average American family now had twice as much real income as the average family had during the prosperous years of the 1920s. |
| median family income | measure of average famuly income. One reason Americans spent more was that they had more money to spend. During the 1950s, median family income or average family income rose from $3,319 to $5,417. The average American family now had twice as much real income as the average family had during the prosperous years of the 1920s. |
| nuclear family | a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner |
| rock and roll | the combo of white country and western music, with black rhythm and blues, with a strong, steady beat to form a new type of music. It became popular with teens in the 1950's and caused generational tensions |
| beatnik | Those members of the Beat Generation using unconventional dress, manners, and behavior as a way of social protest. |
| inner city | the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city |
| urban renewal | Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers. |
| termination policy | 1953 gov eliminated economic support for native americans, stopped reservation system, redistributed tribal support |
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