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An agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members.
Closed Shop
A law making it illegal to require employees to join a union.
Right-to-Work Law
A business that requires employees to join a union.
Union Shop
Truman defeated this man in the election of 1948. Famously, Truman was pictured with a newspaper proclaiming his loss to this man.
Thomas Dewey
Truman's legislative agenda was given this name, which echoed FDR's "New Deal".
The Fair Deal
Former Supreme Allied Commander during WWII who became the 34th president of the US.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A policy of balancing economic conservatism with some activism in other areas.
Dynamic Conservatism
President Eisenhower extended this New Deal program, despite his preference for a smaller government.
Social Security
A marked rise in birthrate, such as occurred in the United States following WWII.
Baby Boom
White-Collar Job
A worker who performs manual labor, particularly work that requires protective clothing.
Blue-Collar Job
A large corporation with overseas investments.
Multinational Corporation
The right or license to market a company's goods or services in an area, such as a store of a chain restaurant.
Franchise
Name an advancement in electronics or aviation that was mentioned in this chapter.
Several
Name a medical breakthrough that was mentioned in this chapter.
Several
Popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent, heavily accented beat, much repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements.
Rock 'n ' Roll
A cultural separation between parents and their children.
Generation Gap
A level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor by the federal government.
Poverty Line
Government programs that attempt to eliminate poverty and revitalize urban areas.
Urban Renewal
A government policy to bring Native Americans into mainstream society by withdrawing recognition of Native American groups as legal entities.
Termination Policy
Act which provided funds to help veterans establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Antisocial or criminal behavior of young people.
Juvenile Delinquency
Temporary contract workers who were hired to work on farms and ranches in the American South West, they were predominantly Hispanic.
Bracero Program
The launch of 2 artificial satellites by the the Soviet Union caused many Americans to believe in a need for increased Science and Math education. Name one of these satellites.
Sputnik I & II
People from this mountainous region migrated North to areas around Cincinnati and Chicago, due to the lack of job opportunity in their homeland.
Appalachia