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31 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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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 nominated for Dixiecrats’ presidential candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president who left the Democratic Party to create a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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New York governor nominated for Republican presidential candidate
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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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Automation
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Use of machines to replace human in production
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Baby Boom
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Soaring birthrate in the United States 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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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Texan who supervised the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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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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George Meany
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AFL—CIO’s first president, boasted that he had never led a strike
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Highway Act
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(1956) Law that provided money to create a national highway system
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Elvis Presley
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Leading talent for rock ‘n’ roll
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Beats
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Small but influential group of writers who challenged literary conventions and the lifestyle of the middle-class in the 1950s
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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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Brown v. Board of Education
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(1954) Supreme Court case that declared “separate but equal” public schools unconstitutional
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer who argued for Brown 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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African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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(MIA) 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
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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26-year-old African American chosen as MIA’s spokesperson
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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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Félix Longoria
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Mexican American soldier killed during WWII. Funeral director refused to let his body be buried at the chapel because he was Mexican
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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(LULAC) Group formed in 1929 to lobby for Hispanic concerns and issues
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Ralph Ellison
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African American writer who published Invisible Man in 1952 about an African American man trying to find his place in a hostile and indifferent society
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote On the Road, one of the best-known beat works in 1957
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