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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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It provided pensions and government loans to help veterans and buy homes or farms
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Employment Act
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Committed the government to promoting full employment and production
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Council of Economic Advisers
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It confer with the President on economic policy
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Taft- Hartley Act
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Gave judges the power to end some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examined racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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They called for continued racial segregation
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J. Strom Thurmond
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A South Carolina governor that was the Dixiecrats Presidential candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Was another liberal New Dealer that left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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Republicans nominated Governor of New York was their Presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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It promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, and the expansion of welfare benefits to more people
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Was the director of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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Modern Republicanism
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Provided social programs, dense, and other government obligations that weakened Eisenhower's pledge to balance the federal budget
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Automation
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It greatly increased productivity
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO'S first President, that boasted that he had never 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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People began to have more and more babies
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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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Was a new type of music. it reworked rhythm and blues, a style popular among African American performers and audiences that combined blues music with more energetic rhythms.
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Elvis Presley
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Emerged as rock's leading talent
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Brown v. Board of Education
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A segregation in public school that came before the Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall
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Was an NAACP lawyer that argued against Brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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When members of the Arkansas National Guard prevented the African American students from entering the school
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil rights leaders, persuaded the community to continue to boycott while the NAACP and Park appealed her conviction
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Martin Luther King
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An energetic and moving speaker, who could inspire large audiences. and his ability to move people help hold African American community together as the bus boycott dragged on for months
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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A billl made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix Longoria
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Was a Mexican soldier killed during World War II
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Legue of United Latin American Citizens
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Had adopted many of the same tactics to fight for Hispanic rights that the NAACP used to champion African American Rights
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Ralph Ellison
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An African American writer that published Invisible Man in 1952
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Beats
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A small but influential group of writers, and poets, challenged both the literary conventions of they day and the lifestyle of the middle class
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Jack Kerouac
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Was a writer and he wrote a novel called On the Road and was a continuous three-week long session at the typewriter
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Urban renewal
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To improve inner-city housing
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