Chapter 27 History

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GI Bill of Rights

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(Servicemen's Readjustment Act), a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War 2 vets.

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Suburb

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A residential town or community near a city.

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Harry S. Truman

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Pres. after F.D.R's death in 1945.

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Dixiecrat

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One of the southern delegates who, to protest Truman's Civil Rights Policy, walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and made the States' rights democratic party.

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Fair Deal

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Pres. Truman's economic program, extension of Roosevelt's New Deal, included measures to increase minimum wage, extend social security coverage, and promote housing for low-income families.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Republican candidate for Pres. Was a General previously.

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Conglomerate

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A major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses.

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Franchise

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A business that has bought the right to use a parent company's name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations.

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Baby boom

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The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following WW2.

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Dr. Jonas Salk

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A doctor who developed a vaccine against the crippling disease poliomyelitis. (Early 1950s)

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Consumerism

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A preoccupation with the purchasing of material goods

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Planned Obsolescence

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The designing of products to new out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions.

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Mass media

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The means of communication, such as television, newspapers, and radio that reach large audiences.

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Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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An agency that regulates U.S. communications industries, including radio and television stations.

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Beat Movement

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A social and artistic movement of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression, and nonconforming with the mainstream culture.

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Beatnik

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One of the unconventional, non-materialistic followers of the beat movement of the 1950's.

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Rock 'n' Roll

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A form of popular music, characterized by heavy rhythms and simple melodies, developed from rhythm and blues during the 1950s.

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Urban Renewal

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The tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods.

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Bracero

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A Mexican laborer allowed to enter the U.S. to work for a limited amount of time.

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Termination policy

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The U.S. government plans, announced in 1953, to give up responsibilities for Native Americans tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands.

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ESSAY TOPIC: DIXIECRATS ("Thurmond")

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When Roosevelt died, the new president Harry Truman established a highly visible President's Committee on Civil Rights and ordered an end to discrimination in the military in 1948. Additionally, the Democratic National Convention in 1948 adopted a plank proposed by Northern liberals led by Hubert Humphrey calling for civil rights; 35 southern delegates walked out. The move was on to remove Truman's name from the ballot in the South. This required a new party, which the Southern defectors chose to name the States' Rights Democratic Party, with its own nominee: Governor of South Carolina J. Strom Thurmond. The Dixiecrats held their convention at Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, Alabama, where they nominated Thurmond for president and Fielding L. Wright, Governor of Mississippi, for vice president.

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DIXIECRATS (P-2)

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The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in theUnited States in 1948. It originated as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party in 1948, determined to protect what they portrayed as the southern way of life beset by an oppressive federal government,and supporters assumed control of the state Democratic parties in part or in full in several Southern states. The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integrationand wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention. Members were called Dixiecrats. (The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat.)The party did not run local or state candidates, and after the 1948 election its leaders generally returned to the Democratic Party.The Dixiecrats had little short-run impact on politics. However, they did have a long-term impact. The Dixiecrats began the weakening of the "Solid South" (the Democratic Party's total control of presidential elections in the South).