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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Servicemen readjustment act of 1944
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Employment act
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committed govt to promote jobs and production
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Council of economic advisors
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talk to pres and advise him
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Taft-Hartley act
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gave judges power to end strikes
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Committee of Civil rights
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it examined racial problems
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dixiecrates
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wanted segregation to continue
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J. Strom Thurmond
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The dixiecrat nomination
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Henry Wallace
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trumans vice president
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thomas dewey
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the republicans nominee
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fair deal
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trumans new reforms
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oveta culp hobby
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he ran the department of health education and welfare
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modern republicanism
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conservative republicans
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automation
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machines doing jobs
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george meany
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the afl's first president
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highway act
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it built roads into cities and helped suburban growth
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baby boom
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an increase in population
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juvenile deliquency
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antisocial kids
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rock n roll
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a new form of music
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elvis presly
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he created rock n roll
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Brown vs. board
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black kids wanted to go to public schools
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Thurgood marshall
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Naacp Lawyer for brown vs. board case.
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Little rock nine
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National gaurd prevented Blacks from going to school in arkansas
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rosa parks
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got sent to jail for not moving on the bus
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the montgomery improvement association
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it organized the bus ban for rosa parks
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Martin luther king JR.
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a civil rights leader
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Civil rights act of 1957
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made it a federal crime to keep people from voting
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felix longoria
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A mexican american soldier who died in wwii
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LULAC
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it helped fight for mexicans rights
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RAlph ellison
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published invisible man
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Beats
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a small group of writers and poets
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Jack kerouac
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wrote the novel "on the road"
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urban renewal
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replaced inner city buildings with new ones.
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