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GI Bill of Rights
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Serviceman's Readjustment Act; established pensions and government loans to veterans for education, businesses, or to buy houses or farms.
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Employment Act
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Law that established the Council of Economic Advisers and pledged that the government would promote full employment and production.
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Council of Economic Advisers
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Federal agency created by the Employment Act of 1946 to council the president on economic policy.
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Law that gave judges the power to end some strikes, outlawed closed shop agreements, restricted unions' political contributions, and required union leaders to swear they were not Communists.
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Dixiecrats
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States' Rights Party; formed in 1948 by southern Democrats who were dissatisfied with President Harry S. Truman's support for civil rights issues.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Nominated by Dixiecrats as its presidential candidate; South Carolina Governor
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Henry Wallace
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Former VP who left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party.
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Thomas Dewey
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Republican Governor from New York.
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Fair Deal
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Series of reform programs proposed by Truman after the 1948 election
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