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18 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 the 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, also restricted unions' political contributions and required union officers to swear that they were not Communists.
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examines racial issues.
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Dixiecrats
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Called for continued racial segregation.
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J. Storm Thurmond
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President candidate of the Dixiecrats party.
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president.
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Thomas Dewey
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Nominated to the the presidential candidate.
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Fair Deal
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Promised full employment, a 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.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairman of the board of the Houston Post.
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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, boasted that he had never led a strike.
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Highway Act
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Contributed to suburban growth. Greatly expanded the nation's highway system, making it easier for suburban residents to commute to jobs in the cities.
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Baby boom
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Soaring birthrate accounted for more than 90 percent of the increase, some 30 billion people in the I.S. population during the 1950s.
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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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