1. Chapter 19 Vocabulary Terms

2. Essential Question What economic, social, and political changes occurred in the postwar United States?

3. Suburbs A residential town or community near a city.

4. Discrimination Treatment based on class or category rather than individual merit.

5. Jackie Robinson Took a brave step when he turned the Brooklyn Dodgers into an integrated baseball team in 1947.

6. Dixiecrat One of the Southern delegates who, to protest President Truman’s civil rights policy, walked out of the 1948 Democrat National Convention and formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party.

7. Slush Fund A fund often designated for corrupt practices, such as bribery.

8. Fair Deal Included measures to increase minimum wage, to extend social security coverage, and provide housing for low-income families.

9. Conglomerate A major corporation that owns a number of smaller companies in unrelated businesses.

10. Franchise A business that bought the right to use a parent company’s name and methods, thus becoming one of a number of similar businesses in various locations.

11. Baby Boom The sharp increase in the U.S. birthrate following World War II.

12. Dr. Jonas Salk Developed a vaccine for the crippling disease poliomyelitis.

13. Homogenize To make the same or similar.

14. Consumerism A preoccupation with the purchasing of goods.

15. Planned Obsolescence The designing of products to wear out or to become outdated quickly, so that people will feel a need to replace their possessions frequently.

16. Mass Media The means of communication such as TV, newspaper, and radio that reach large audiences.

17. Federal Communication Commission An agency that regulates the U.S. communication industries.

18. Jazz A style of music characterized by the use of improvisation.

19. Little Richard Helped change rhythm and blues into a new musical genre- rock ‘n’ roll.

20. James Dean Became a teenage hero and a symbol of their own frustration with conformity in American society.

21. Jack Kerouac Novelist who wrote the book “On the Road” the story of his travels across the U.S.

22. Stereotypical Conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified.

23. Beat Movement Expressed the social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers.

24. Rock ‘n’ Roll A form of American popular music that evolved in the 1950s out of rhythm and blues, country, jazz, gospel, and pop.

25. Dick Clark Hosted the American Bandstand the first network television show dedicated exclusively to rock ‘n’ roll.

26. Elvis Presley Musician and actor endured rapid fame in the mid-1950s—on the radio, TV and the silver screen— and continues to be one of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll.

27. Nat “King” Cole Was a jazz and pop musical singer and pianist, whose soft and smooth vocals made him a major star in the 1940s and 1950s.