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100
Law providing government funds to returning soldiers to address their futures for serving in the military and combat possible depression issues. Gave them unemployment payments, student financial aid, and home loans.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
100
Legislation that funded 41,000 miles of highway to connect major cities.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
100
This Memphis musician is credited with taking an African American style of music, as well as country, and forming a genre of music known as rock-and-roll that became very popular with the youth in the nation.
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
Term for the urban area that was overrun with poverty and crime. The older central part of the city with crowded neighborhoods.
What is the inner-city?
100
After the war, Truman "brought the boys home by Christmas" and cut the size of active members in the military.
What is demobilization?
200
Result of prosperity and returning soldiers where the population increased and a baby was born every seven seconds.
What is the baby boom?
200
A name for southern and western states that saw a migration due to employment opportunities and warmer climates.
What is the Sunbelt?
200
Style of music created by Chuck Berry that used several influences and stirred a cultural revolution for decades after.
What is rock-and-roll?
200
Writers and artist that was critical of the postwar prosperity and the growing middle-class that preached conformity.
Who are beatniks?
200
This type of business became popular during the postwar years and allowed a company to distribute its products and services through retail outlets owned by independent operators.
What is a franchise business?
300
To combat inflation and a lack of supply, new technologies led to a greater rate at which goods were produced and services performed.
What is productivity?
300
Businesses that provide services such as healthcare and insurance that provided the economic shift from industrial jobs.
What is service sector?
300
The "ideal" family, known as a __________________, had a mother who was the homemaker, a father that earned the bread, and focused on the children
What is a nuclear family?
300
Government response project to deal with the downward trend of American cities. Looking to remove some areas while revitalizing others.
What is urban renewal?
300
Companies that produce and sell their goods all over the world?
What is a multinational corporation?
400
A law, vetoed by Truman but over overrode by Congress, that made it illegal for businesses to hired only union members.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
400
The merger of these two labor movement groups.
What is AFL-CIO?
400
Due to an increase in median incomes and buying on credit, many people started purchasing more items and large ticket items like cars and televisions, taking part in this.
What is cosumerism?
400
A way of removing tribal governments and making Native Americans assimilate into the culture and cities.
What is the termination policy?
400
A doctor that wrote a book on parenting to inform parents how to raise and nurture their children.
Who is Benjamin Spock?
500
Truman's legislative programs that intended to strengthen FDR's New Deal and provide for national health care. Congress refused most reform measures.
What is the Fair Deal?
500
The postwar emphasis on education was made accessible to most citizens making it easier to attend an institution of higher education. An example is _________________, where a state used a three tier model of research universities, state colleges, and community colleges.
What is the California Master Plan?
500
In the 1950s this increased, and nearly doubled, making ther period prosperous and allowing people to buy more.
What is median family income?
500
A popular book by beatnik author Jack Kerouac.
What is On the Road?
500
A white-collar workforce that built and operated the first computers (ENIAC).
What is information industries?