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31 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Provided pensions and government loans to help veterans
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Employment Act
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Ensured postwar economic growth
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Council of Economic Advisers
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Conferred with the president on economic policy
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Reduced the strength of organized labor
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examined racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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Southerns delegates/States' Rights Party
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Henry Wallace
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New Dealer that left the Democratic Party
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Thomas Dewey
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Governor of New York
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Fair Deal
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Truman's deal to help unemployment, higher minimum wage
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Supervised the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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Modern Republican
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The approach to domestic affairs
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO's first president
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Highway Act
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Contributed to suburban growth
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Baby boom
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Increase in the population
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Juvenile Deliquency
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Antisocial behavior by the youth
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Rock 'n' Roll
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New type of music, not as brutal and hard as metal
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Segregation trial
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Thurgood Marshall
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Argued on Brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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Group of blacks from Little Rock
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Rosa Parks
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African American woman who ignited the bus boycotts and ignited the Civil Rights
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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Group of local civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leader of civil rights
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Félix Longoria
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Mexican American killed during World War II
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Helped hispanics
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Ralph Ellison
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Published Invisible Man in 1952
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Beats
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Small but influential group of writers
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote On The Road
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Urban Renewal
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Cleaned up the hood
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Automation
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Improved productivity
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