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GI Bill of Rights
provided pensions and government loans to help veterans start businesses and buy homes or farms
Employment Act
Committed the government to promoting full employment & production
Council of Economic Advisers
Established to confer with the president on economic policy
Taft-Hartley Act
Gave judges the power to end some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements
Committee on Civil Rights
Created to examine racial issues
Dixiecrats
Called for continued racial segregation
J Strom Thurmond
Nominated for presidential candidate
Henry Wallace
Former vice president, left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party
Thomas Dewey
Governor of New York, nominated as presidential candidate
Fair Deal
Truman's deal which promised full employment, higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, and the expansion of welfare benefits to more people.
Oveta Culp Hobby
Held supervision over Eisenhower's Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Modern Republicanism
"conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings"
Automation
greatly increased productivity
Highway Act
Contributed to suburban growth
Baby Boom
Increase in U.S. population during the 1950s
Juvenile Delinquency
antisocial behavior by the young
rock 'n' roll
Reworked rhythm and blues