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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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provided loans to help veterans to start whatever they were doing
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Employment Act
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promoting full employment and production
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Council of economic Advisers
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group that talked with the president of 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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examine racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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party that wanted to continued racial segregation
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J.Strom Thurmond
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was the president of the Dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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vice president of Truman
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Thomas Dewey
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the presidential candidate of the republicans
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Fair Deal
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The new reforms of Truman
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Overta Culp Hobby
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President of the department of health
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Modern Republicanism
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people who were conservative with their money.
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automation
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it was machines that worked better and faster than humans
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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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to increase the nation's highway
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baby boom
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when the population increased in the 1950's
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juvenile delinquency
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antisocial behavior by a young person
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rock 'n' roll
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new style of music
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Elvis Presley
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was the rocks leading talent
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Brown v. Board of education
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black girl went to court because she went to a white school
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Thurgood Marshall
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naacp lawyer was browns lawyer
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little rock nine
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African American students in an Arkansas school
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