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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Bill that provided pensions and government loans to help veterans start businesses and buy homes or farms.
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Employment Act
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Act that committed the government to promoting full employment and production. Established the Council of Economic Advisers
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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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Bill that 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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the States' Rights Party that called for continued racial segregation.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Presidential candidate for the Dixiecrats.
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Henry Wallace
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One of the founders of the Progressive Party.
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Thomas Dewey
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Presidential candidate for the Republicans
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Fair Deal
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Truman's proposal that promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, adn the expansion of welfare benefits to more people.
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automation
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Process throughout the 1950s in which companies introduced machines that could perform industrial operations faster and more efficiently than human workers.
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baby boom
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The soaring birthrate in the 1950s that accounted for more than 90% of the population
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juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior by the young.
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rock 'n' roll
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New type of music that reworked incorporated blues with more energetic rhythms.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Supervisor of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Modern Republicanism
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Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings.
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George MEany
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AFL-CIO's first president
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Highway Act
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Bill that greatly expanded the nation's highway system, making it easier for suburban residents to commute to jobs in the cities.
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent.
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beats
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A small but influential group of writers and poets.
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urban renewal
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Programs that were created to replace old, run-down inner-city buildings with new ones.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Supreme Court case that declared "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional
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Thurgood Marshall
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Lawyer that argued on Brown's behalf in the Brown v. Board of Education Trial.
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Little Rock Nine
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Nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas, in 1957
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Rosa Parks
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An African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested.
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Montgomery Improvement Assosiation
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Organization formed by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 to strengthen the bus boycott and to coordinate protest efforts of African Americans; let by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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MIA's spokesperson
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Law that made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix Longoria
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A Mexican American soldier killed during WWII and was treated like a veteran and when this was publicized the community was outraged.
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Group formed in 1929 to lobby for Hispanic concerns and issues
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Ralph Ellison
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African American writer who published Invisible Man.
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Jack Kerouac
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Beats' author who wrote On the Road.
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