Chapter 20 Am Hist Review
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- What is a conglomerate?
- Corporation made up of three or more unrelated businesses
- What was the Taft-Hartley Act?
- Tried to stop strikes
- What were three effects of the fair deal?
- Higher minimum wage, National health insurance, and Housing assistance
- What was one of the biggest technological advances during the 50's and why?
- The computer because they became smaller and faster
- By how many percent did the working women population increase?
- It went from 24% to 31% (7%)
- Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
- Leader of allie forces during WWII, and promoted business
- Who was Kerouac?
- Leader of the beatnicks, and author of on the road
- What was the GI Bill?
- Gave veterans interest cuts
- What was the transistor?
- Circuit device that amplifies controls, and generates eltrical signal
- What were beatnicks
- The hippies of the 50's
- What is a franchise?
- A business that contracts with a large parent company to offer goods and services
- What was reconversion?
- Social and economical transition from wartime to peacetime
- What is per capita income?
- average family income
- What is modern republicanism?
- Presiden Eisenhower's approach to government
- Who was Benjamin Spock?
- Wrote sense book of baby and child care which encouraged moms to stay home with kids rather than working
- What was the National Defense Education Act?
- It was a push to teach more math and science in schools
- What was the baby boom?
- Sharp increase in population/ babies
- Who was Richard Nixon?
- Made the famous checkers speech, and was envolved in watergate
- Who was Jonas Salk?
- Invented the polio vaccine