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33 Cards in this Set
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GI bill of rights
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Servicemen's Readjustmane Act; established pensions and gov loans to veterans for education, businesses, or to buy a house or farm
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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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Federal agency created by the Employment Act of 1946 to counsel the president on exonomic 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 require 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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Dixicrats
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States Rights Part
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Dixiecrats party nominated this guy from south carolina
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president
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Thomas Dewey
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Republicans nominated this governor
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Fair Deal
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Series of reform programs proposed by President Harry S Truman after the 1948 election
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Eisenhower est the Department of health, education, and welfare under the supervision of texan....
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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 1950
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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
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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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A period when the baby population grew rapidly
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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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Popular music introduced int he 1950s
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Elvis Presley
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rock leading talent
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Supreme court case that declared "separte by equal
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO's first president
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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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African American student who entered the school
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Rosa Parks
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An African American seamstress, provided the NAACP with its opportunity
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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a group of local civil rights leaders, persuaded the community to continue the boycott
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Martin Luther King
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Baptist minister "I have a dream"
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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A bill 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 WW2
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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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Raloh Ellison
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he 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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One of the best know beat works was written by_.
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urban renewal
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Program launched by the federal gov in the 1950s to replace old, run down inner city buildings
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