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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 starts businesses ad buy homes or farms
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Employment act
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To ensure economic growth
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Council of economic advisors
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To confer with the president on economic policy
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Taft Hartley act
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Gave judges the power to end strikes and outlawed closed shop agreements
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Committee on civil rights
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To examines racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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Political party that called for continued segregation
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J. Storm Thurmond
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South Carolina governor
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Henry Wallace
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Former Vice President left democratic part and found the new progressive party
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Thomas Dewey
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Presidential candidate
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Fair deal
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A series of new reforms
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Oveta culp hobby
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Texan
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Modern republicanism
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Te new Approach to domestic affairs
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Automation
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Greatly increased productivity
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George meanie
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First president to boast that he never had led a strike
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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 n population by 90%.
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Juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior f the young
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Rock n roll
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Teenagers used this to escape the conformity
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Elvis Presley
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Rocks lading talent
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Brown v.s board of education
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Main case
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer
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Little rock nine
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African Merican students
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Rosa parks
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African American seamstress
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Montgomery improvement association
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Group of local civil rights laders
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Martin Luther king jr.
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26 year old baptist minster
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Civil rights act of 1957
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Made it a crime to prevent qualified people from voting
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Felix longoria
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Mexican American solder killed during WWII
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League of united latín American citizens
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Formed in 1929
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Ralph Ellison
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Published invisible man
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote on the road
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Urban renewal
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To irove towns and cities
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