Chapter 27

2. Deal : an extension of Roosevelt’s New Deal
6. : a major corporation that includes a number of smaller companies in unrelated industries
7. : the government agency that regulates and licenses television, telephone, telegraph, radio, and other communications industries
10. movement : expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.
12. Jonas Salk: developed a vaccine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis—polio.
13. inflation: Inflation that occurred after the war
15. policy: eliminated federal economic support, discontinued the reservation system, and distributed tribal lands among individual Native Americans.
16. a company that offers similar products or services in many locations.
18. : homes in small residential communities surrounding cities

1. Bill of Rights 14 : helps ease veterans’ return to civilian life,
3. television developed with lightning speed.
4. media : means of communication that reach large
5. n roll: a name that has come to mean music that’s both black and white music that is American.
8. buying material goods, came to be equated with success.
9. Levitt & Son's first development consisted of 2,000 homes that the company rented to married veterans at $65 a month.
10. hired hands
11. renewal: a program that redevelops blighted areas of a city to improve the quality of life for residents
12. a number of Southern Democrats
14. style of music characterized by the use of improvisation
17. S. Truman : was president after Franklin D.Roosevelt’s
19. boom: an unprecedented population explosion