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| GI Bill of Rights | encouraged veterans to get an education by paying part of their tuition |
| suburbs | homes in small residential communities surrounding cities |
| Dixiecrat | Southern delegates who opposed civil rights and sought to protect their original way of life against the interference of the federal government |
| Strom Thurmond | governor of South Carolina and the nominated presidential candidate for the Dixiecrats in the 1948 election |
| Fair Deal | President Trumans domestic policy |
| conglomerate | a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries |
| franchise | a company that offers similar products or services in many locations |
| Ray Kroc | bought McDonalds franchise rights for $2.7 million |
| baby boom | an unprecedented population explosion that soldiers contributed to as they returned to their families after WWII |
| Dr. Jonas Salk | he developed a vaccine for polio |
| Betty Friedan | author of the groundbreaking 1963 study of women and society called The Feminine Mystique |
| automania | many families owned two cars |
| consumerism | success measured by the buying material goods |
| planned obsolescence | when products are designed to wear out or become outdated |
| Federal Communications Commission | the government agency that regulates and licenses television |
| beat movement | a movement that expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists and poets |
| beatniks | followers of the beat movement |
| Jack Kerouac | king of the beats and author of the novel On the Road |
| Alan Freed | a radio disc jockey who was one of the first men to play rock n roll |
| Dick Clark | host of the long-running TV show American Bandstand |
| Teenager | a person who is no longer a child yet not old enough to be considered an adult |
| white flight | the departure of millions of middle-class white Americans from the cities to the suburbs |
| urban renewal | this called for tearing down rundown neighborhoods and constructing low-income housing |
| braceros | Mexicans who were allowed into the United States to harvest crops during and after WWII |
| Ignacio Lopez | founder of the Unity League of California |
| termination policy | a new approach that eliminated federal economic support |
| the other America | the American poor who were largely ignored until they could no longer be avoided |
