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This was an ambitious economic plan proposed by President Truman.
What was the Fair Deal?
This is the name for a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
What is a franchise?
This movement was centered in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City’s Greenwich Village.
What is the beat movement?
These were Mexican workers who came to the United States during World War II to harvest crops.
What are braceros?
The Dixiecrats nominated this person to run for president in 1948.
Who is J. Strom Thurmond?
President Truman threatened to do this to striking workers to prevent strikes from crippling the nation.
What is draft?
This is a large corporation that owns a number of smaller companies.
What is a conglomerate?
The vast majority of new homes in the 1950s were built in these areas.
What are suburbs?
In 1924, this granted citizenship to all Native Americans, but they remained second-class citizens.
What is the Snyder Act?
This person developed a vaccine for the crippling disease polio.
Who was Dr. Jonas Salk?
Congress passed this to help ease veterans’ return to civilian life in 1944.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
This term refers to the American way of life with more money to spend and an increased number of products to buy.
What is consumerism?
As soldiers returned from World War II and settled into family life, they contributed to an unprecedented population explosion known as this.
What is the baby boom?
This prompted Mexican Americans to promote political candidates who represented their interests, organize the G.I. Forum, and found the Unity League of California.
What is the Longoria incident?
His Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, sold nearly 10 million copies during the 1950s.
Who was Dr. Benjamin Spock?
In 1947, Congress passed this over Truman’s veto, overturning many rights won by the unions under the New Deal.
Most Americans in the 1960s relied on this as their primary source of entertainment and information.
What is television?
By 1956, this government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communications industries, had allowed 500 new stations to broadcast.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
In 1953, the federal government announced that it would give up its responsibility for Native American tribes in an approach known as this, which eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
What is the termination policy?
This salesman paid the McDonalds brothers $2.7 million for the franchise rights to their hamburger drive-in and in April 1955, he opened his first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Who was Ray Kroc?
The Supreme Court ruled in this case that public schools must be racially integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
This is a marketing strategy designed to encourage consumers to buy more goods.
What is planned obsolescence?
This term refers to millions of middle-class white Americans who left the cities for the suburbs in the 1950s, taking with them precious economic resources and isolating themselves from other races and classes.
What is white flight?
In 1944, Native Americans established this, which had two main goals: (1) to ensure for Native Americans the same civil rights that white Americans had, and (2) to enable Native Americans on reservations to retain their own customs.
What is the National Congress of American Indians?
As the 1948 election approached, opinion polls gave this Republican candidate and New York Governor a comfortable lead against Truman.
Who was Thomas E. Dewey?