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28 Cards in this Set
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closed shop |
the practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members |
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right-to-work law |
a law making it illegal to require employees to join a union |
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union shop |
shops where new workers were required to join the union |
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featherbedding |
the practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs |
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Do-nothing congress |
congress that Truman attacked |
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Fair Deal |
Deal made by Harry S. Truman |
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dynamic conversationism |
balancing economic conservatism with some activism |
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Federal Highway Act |
the largest public works program in American history |
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John Kenneth Galbraith |
claimed that the nation's postwar prosperity was a new phenomenon |
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White-collar- |
jobs in fields not requiring work clothes or protective clothing, such as sales |
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blue_collor |
jobs in the manual labor field, particularly those requiring protective clothing |
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multinational corporation |
large corporations with oversea investments |
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franchise |
the right or license to market a company's goods or services in an area, such as a store of a chain operation |
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David Riesman |
argued that his conformity was changing people |
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Levittown |
one of the earliest suburbs |
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baby boom |
a marked rise in birthrate, such as occurred in the U.S after WWII |
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Jonas Salk |
developed a vaccine that prevented polio |
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Ed Sullivan |
made a variety of shows |
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Alan Freed |
became an artist on the radio |
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Elvis Presley |
Famous singer |
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generation gap |
the cultural separation between children and their parents |
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Jack Kerouac |
made a classic book in modern literature |
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Little Richard |
Talented African American singer |
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poverty line |
a figure set by the government to reflect the minimal income required to support a family |
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urban renewal |
government programs that attempt to eliminate poverty and revitalize urban areas |
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Bracero program |
brought nearly 5 million Mexicans to the U.S. to work on farms and ranches in the Southwest |
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termination policy |
a government policy to bring Native Americans into mainstream society by withdrawing recognition of Native American groups as legal entities |
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juvenile delinquency |
anti-social or criminal behavior of young people |
