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30 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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This bill 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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It committed the government to promoting full employment and production
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Council of Economic Advisers
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It conferred with the president on economic policy
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Taft-Harley Act
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Gave judges the power to send some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examined racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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They called for racial segregation
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J. Strom Thurmind
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The Dixiecrats nominated him as their presidential candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Him and other liberal New Dealers left the Democratic party to found a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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The Democrats nominated him as their presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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Truman's fair deal promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, and expansion of welfare benefits to more people
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Eisenhower established the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the supervision of this
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Modern Republicanism
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"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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AFL-CIO's first president
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Baby Boom
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The increase in population during the 1950s
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Highway Act of 1956
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Contributed to suburban growth
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Juvenile Delinquency
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Antisocial behavior by the young
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Elvis Presley
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Emerged as rock's leading talent
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Rock 'N' Roll
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This music reworked rhythm and blues, a style popular among African American performers and audiences that combined blues music with more energetic rhythms
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Brown V. Board of Education
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It involved Linda Brown, an African American student from Topeka, Kansas. Segregation in Topeka's schools prevented her from attending an all-white elementary school a short walk from her home
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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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For nearly three weeks members of the Arkansas National Guard prevented the African Americans students known as this from entering the school
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Rosa Parks
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An 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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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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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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Felix Longoria
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A Mexican American soldier killed during WWII and was treated like a veteran and when this was publicized the community was outraged.
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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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African American writer who published Invisible Man.
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Jack Kerouac
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Beats' author who wrote On the Road.
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