Presidential
Former Supreme Allied Commander during WWII who became the 34th president of the US.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The right or license to market a company's goods or services in an area, such as a store of a chain restaurant.
Franchise
People from this mountainous region migrated North to areas around Cincinnati and Chicago, due to the lack of job opportunity in their homeland.
Appalachia
Truman's legislative agenda was given this name, which echoed FDR's "New Deal".
The Fair Deal
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
Act which provided funds to help veterans establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college.
Servicemen's Readjustment Act or GI Bill
President Eisenhower extended this New Deal program, despite his preference for a smaller government.
Social Security
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
A policy of balancing economic conservatism with some activism in other areas.
Dynamic Conservatism
Antisocial or criminal behavior of young people.
Juvenile Delinquency
A level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor by the federal government.
Poverty Line
Truman defeated this man in the election of 1948. Famously, Truman was pictured with a newspaper proclaiming his loss to this man.
Thomas Dewey
Temporary contract workers who were hired to work on farms and ranches in the American South West, they were predominantly Hispanic.
Bracero Program
cultural separation between parents and their children.
Generation Gap