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32 Cards in this Set
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Gi Bill of Rights
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Provided pensions and government loans to help veterans start businesses and buy homes or farms
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Employment Act
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Committed the government to promoting full employment and production
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Council of Economic Advisers
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Confer with the president on 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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Dixiecrafts
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The Dixiecrafts called for continued racial segregation
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Presidential candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Liberated New Dealers left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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From New York as a presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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Promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Established the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the supervision of Texas
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Modern Republicanism
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Approach to domestic affairs, which Eisenhower described as "conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings"
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Automation
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Greatly increased productivity
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George Meany
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The 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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People began to refer to the increase as this
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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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A new type of music
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Elvis Presley
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Emerged as a rock's leading talent
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Brown V. Board of Education
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The main case
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Thurgood Marshall
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Argued on Brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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Prevented Afircan American students
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Rosa Parks
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An African American seamstress
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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A 26-year-old Baptist minister
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Bill made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix Longoria
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Was a Mexican American soldier killed during World War 2
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Formed in 1929, LULAC adopted many of the same tactics to fight for Hispanic rights
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Ralph Ellison
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Published Invisible Man in 1952
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Beats
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A small but influential group of writers and poets
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Jack Kerouac
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Best-known beat works
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Urban Renewal
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The federal government proposed this
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