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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
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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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Dixiecrats
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party formed when southern delegates stormed out of the convention
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J. Strom Thurmond
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presidential candidate for the Dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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former vice president to Truman
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Thomas Dewey
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presidential candidate for the republicans
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Fair Deal
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series of new reforms
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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supervisor of the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare
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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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machines could perform industrial operations faster and more efficiently than human workers
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George Meany
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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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increase in birthrate
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Juvenile Dlingquency
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bad kids
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Rock 'n' Roll
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new type of music
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Elvis Presley
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famous singer in the 50s
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Linda Brown vs. segregation in schools in Kansas
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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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Arkansas National Guard
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Rosa Parks
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didn't move when told to go to the back of the bus
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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group of local civil rights leaders
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The King
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26 year-old baptist Minister
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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bill that made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix Longoria
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Mexican American soldier killed during world war 2
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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adopted many of the same tactics to fight for Hispanic rights
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Ralph Ellison
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published Invisible Man
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Beats
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small but influential group of writers and poets
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Jack Kerouac
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wrote on the of the best-known beat works
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Urban Renewal
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created to replace old, run-down inner-city buildings with new ones
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