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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of rights
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provided pension and government loans to help veterans start business and buy homes or farms
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Employment Act
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passed to ensure postwar economic growth
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Council of Economic Advisers
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was established to confer with the president on economic policy
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Taft-Harley Act
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gave judges the power to end some strikes
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Committee on Civil
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ought to examine racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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other name for the States' Rights Party, called for racial segregation
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J. Storm Thurmond
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Presidential candidate of the Dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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left Democratic Party to form Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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presidential candidate for the republicans
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Fair Deal
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Truman's series of new reforms in the method of FDR's new deal
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Texan who supervised department of health, education and welfare
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Modern Republicanism
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large educational spendings
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automation
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companies introduced machines that could perform industrial operations faster and more effective than human workers
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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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contributed to suburban growth
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baby boom
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birthrate accounted for more than 90 percent, population grew at 30 million
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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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new typ of music that was established
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Elvis Presley
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Leading Rock 'n' Roll idol
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Brown v. Board of Education
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main case before the Supreme court about legal challenges to segregation in public schools
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer argued on Brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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members of the Arkansas National Guard prevented the African American students
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Rosa Parks
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African American seamstress, provided the NAACP with its opportunity
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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group of local civil rights leader
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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speaker of the MIA, baptist minister, gave a lot of speeches against rassism
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons form voting
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Felix Longoria
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Mexican American soldier killed during WW2. His body was recovered and returned to his hometown
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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adopted many of the same tactics to fight for Hispanic rights that the NAACP used to champion African American rights, for Latin American
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Ralph Ellison
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African American writer of Invisible Man
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beats
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small, but influential group of writers and poets. challenged lifestyle of middle class
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Jack Kerouac
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famous bet writer, wrote On the raos
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urban renewal
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formed to improve inner-city housing
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