Chapter 17

Question 1

Baby Boom

Answer 1

increase in births between 1945 and 1964

Question 2

Closed Shop

Answer 2

shop in which only union members can be hired; outlawed by the Taft-Hartley Act

Question 3

Consumerism

Answer 3

large scale buying, much of it on credit

Question 4

Demobilization

Answer 4

sending home members of the army

Question 5

Fair Deal

Answer 5

Name given to the proposals of Harry Truman to strengthen New Deal legislation and establish new programs such as national health insurance

Question 6

Franchise Business

Answer 6

allows a company to distribute its products or services through retail outlets owned by independent operators

Question 7

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 7

legislation providing education and employment aid to returning WWII veterans

Question 8

Information Industries

Answer 8

businesses that provide informational services

Question 9

Multinational Corporations

Answer 9

companies that produced and sold thier goods and services all over the world and established branches abroad

Question 10

Productivity

Answer 10

the rate at which goods are produced or services are performed

Question 11

Service Sector

Answer 11

businesses that provide services rather than manufactured goods

Question 12

Suburb

Answer 12

residential area surrounding a city

Question 13

Super Market

Answer 13

a self-service retail market selling especially foods and household merchandise

Question 14

Taft Hartley Act

Answer 14

law that outlawed closed shops and allowed states to creat right-to-work laws

Question 15

Interstate Highway Act

Answer 15

law authorizing the construction of 41,000 miles of multilane expressways that would connect major U.S. cities

Question 16

Sunbelt

Answer 16

name given to states stretching across the Southern U.S. from the Atlantic to Pacific

Question 17

Nuclear Family

Answer 17

household consisting of a father, mother, and their children

Question 18

Urban renewal

Answer 18

project in which the government cleared large tracts of older housing an built freeways and developments which would revitalize downtwon areas

Question 19

Inner city

Answer 19

older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority, groups lived

Question 20

California Master Plan

Answer 20

created three tiers of higher education - reserch universities, state colleges and community colleges which were accessible to all the state’s citizens

Question 21

median family income

Answer 21

money earned by a typical family in a year