also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act; further boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college
Taft-Hartley Act
outlawed the closed shop
Closed shop
practice of forcing business owners to hire only union members
Right-to-work laws
outlawed union shops
Union shops
shops in which new workers were required to join the union
Featherbedding
practice of limiting work output in order to create more jobs
Dixiecrat Party
a group of Southern Democrats who walked out of the Democratic Convention and were angry at Truman's support of civil rights (Strom Thurmond as presidential candid