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31 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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The bill proded pensions and goverment loans to help veterans start business and buy homes and farms.
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Employment Act
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The act comitted the government to promoting full employment and production.
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Council of Economic Advisers
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A council made to confer with the president on economic policy.
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Taft-Hartley Act
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It gave judicial power to end some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements.
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Commitee on Civil Rights
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A committee developed by Truman to examine racial issues.
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Dixiecrats
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A states right party that was known for racial segregation.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Carolina Governor and presidential canidate for the Dixiecrat party.
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president that left the democratic party to form a new progressive party, which called for an extension on the new deal.
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Thomas Dewey
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Republican canidate and governor of new york.
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Fair Deal
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A deal that promised full employment, 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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A Texan who supervised 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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Automation
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A process that involved machines to improve efficiency.
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The Highway Act
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A bill that helped suburban growth by expanding highway system.
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Baby Boom
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An increase in the population around the 1950's.
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Juvenile Deliquency
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Antisocial behavior by the young.
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Rock n' Roll
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This music reworked rhythm and blues with more energetic rhythms.
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Elvis Presley
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A leading talent of rock and roll known as the king of rock and roll.
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Brown v. Board Of Education
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A court case that was important in the involvement of segregation in schools.
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf.
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Little Rock Nine
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The students that were prevented from entering their Arkansas school.
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Rosa Parks
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African American who refused from moving for a white man giving up her seat.
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil rights leaders that worked to continue the boycott on the bus system.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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A noteable civil rights activist.
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Made it a federal crime to stop certain people from voting.
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Felix Longoria
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Mexican American Soldier killed during WW2.
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Latin American NAACP.
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Ralph Ellison
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Publisher of the Invisible Man in 1952.
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Beats
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A small influential group of writers and poets who challenged both literary conventions of the day and the lifestyle of the middle class.
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Jack Kerouac
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The most well known Beat writer.
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Programs who helped replace old run-down inner city building with new ones.
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Urban Renewal
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