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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Servicemen'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 counsel 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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Committee on Civil Rights
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Committee appointed by President Harry S Truman in 1946 to examine racial issues
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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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South Carolina governor who was a presidential candidate in 1948 for the Dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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Left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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Republican presidential candidate in the 1948 election
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Fair Deal
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Series of reform programs proposed by President Harry S Truman after the 1948 election; achieved mixed results
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Supervised the establishment of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that Roosevelt established
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Modern Republicanism
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Name given to President Dwight D. Eisenhower's attempt to balance liberal domestic reforms with conservative spending during the 1950s
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Automation
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Use of machines to replace humans in production
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO's first president who helped his union greatly
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Highway Act
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Law that provided money to create a national highway system
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Baby boom
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Soaring birthrate in the US following WWII
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Juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior by young people
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Rock 'n' roll
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Popular music introduced in the 1950s; influenced by African American rhythm and blues
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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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Supreme Court case that declared "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional
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Thurgood Marshall
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A lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf in Brown v. Board of education
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Little Rock Nine
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Nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
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Rosa Parks
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An African American who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested and worked hard for civil rights
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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Organization formed by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 to strengthen the bus boycott and to coordinate protest efforts of African Americans' led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Chosen as the MIA spokesperson because he was a great speaker
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Law that made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix Longoria
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A Mexican American soldier killed during WWII whose body was returned to his hometown and was discriminated against
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Group formed in 1929 to lobby for Hispanic concerns and issues
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Ralph Ellison
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An African American writer who wrote about experiences of those facing poverty and discrimination
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Beats
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A small, influential group of writers and poets
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote one of the best-known beat works
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Urban Renewal
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Program launched by the federal government in the 1950s to replace old, run-down inner-city buildings
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