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| GI Bill | a bill that provided loans to veterans to help them start businesses, buy homes, and attend college |
| clsoed shop | the practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members |
| right-to-work laws | laws which outlawed union shops |
| union shop | shops in which new workers were required to join the union |
| featherbedding | the practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs |
| "Do-Nothing Congress" | the name President Truman gave to the REpublican Congress |
| Fair Deal | the name given to PResident Truman's programs |
| dynamic conservatism | the policy of balancing economic conservatism with some activism |
| Federal Highway Act | law that provided funding for the building of interstate highways |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | economist who published The Affluent Society |
| white-collar | kind of ojbs that do not involve physical labor in industry |
| blue-collar | kind of jobs that involve physical labor |
| multinational corporations | large corporations that expanded overseas |
| franchise | a business in which a person owns and runs one or several stores of a chain operation |
| David Riesman | sociologist who wrote The Lonely Crowd |
| Levittown | one of the earliest suburbs in the United States |
| baby boom | the time between 1945 and 1961 when a more than 65 million children were born |
| Jonas STalk | research scientist who developed a vaccine that prevented polio |
| Ed Sullivan | host of a variety home |
| Alan Freed | a radio disc jockey who introduced AFrican American rhythm and blues records to white radio stations |
| Elvis Presley | the first rock'n'roll hero |
| generation gap | a cultural separation between children and their parents |
| JAck Kerouac | a beat writer |
| Little Richard | African American rock'n'roll singer |
| poverty line | a figure the government set to reflect the minimum income required to support a family |
| Michael Harrington | author who wrtoe The Other America which reported on poverty in the United STates |
| urban renewal | type of program that tried to eliminate pverty by tearing down slums and building high-ride buildings for poor residents |
| Bracero program | a program that grought millions of Mexicans to the United STates |
