The Postwar Boom Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. an organized movement of citizens and government agencies to improve the rights and power of buyers in relation to sellers
  2. 5. deal, an extension of FDR's New Deal which included measures to increase the minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and to provide housing for low-income families
  3. 10. boom, the sharp increase in the US birthrate following WWII
  4. 11. policy, the US government's plan, announced in 1953, to give up responsibility for Native American tribes by eliminating federal economic support, discontinuing the reservation system, and redistributing tribal lands
  5. 12. a Mexican laborer allowed to enter the United States to work for a limited period of time during WWII
  6. 13. a major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses
  7. 14. a residential town or community near a city
  8. 17. S Truman, became president after FDR's death, unprepared for job, honorable, down-to-earth, self-confident, had the ability to make difficult decisions & to accept full responsibility for their consequences
  9. 18. media, the means of communication such as television, newspapers, and radio that reach large audiences
  10. 19. a style of music characterized by the use of improvisation
Down
  1. 1. southern delegates who walked out of the 1948 Democratic National Convention and formed the States' Rights Democratic Party
  2. 3. obsolescence, the practice of modifying products so those that have already been sold become obsolete before they actually need replacement
  3. 4. Salk, developed a vaccine for polio
  4. 6. renewal, the tearing down and replacing of buildings in rundown inner-city neighborhoods
  5. 7. Bill of Rights, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans
  6. 8. an agency that regulates US communications industries, including radio and television broadcasting
  7. 9. a business that has bought the right to use a parent company's name and methods, becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations
  8. 15. movement, a social and artistic movement of the 1950s, stressing unrestrained literary self-expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
  9. 16. 'n roll, a form of American popular music that evolved in the 1950s out of rhythm and blues, country jazz, gospel, and pop