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32 Cards in this Set
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Council of economic advisors
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Confered with the president on economic policy.
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Employment act
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Ensured postwar economic growth.
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Taft-Harley act
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Gave judges the powertk end some strikes and outlawed closed shop agreements.
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Committee on civil rights.
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Examines racial issues.
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J. Storm Thurmond
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Presidential candidate
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Dixiecrats
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Continued racial segragation
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Henry Wallace
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Left the Democratic Party
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GI bill of rights
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Bill of pensions
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Employment act
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Act committed government
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Fair deal
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Truman's fair deal
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Thomas Dewey
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Governor of New York
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Oveta culprit hobby
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Texan
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Modern republicanism
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Liberal when it comes to human brings
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George many
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Boasted he had never led a strike
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Highway act
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Contributes to suburban growth
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Baby boom
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When people made a lot of babies after the war
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Juvenile deliquency
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Antisocial behavior
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Rock n roll
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Music worked with rhythm nd blues
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Elvis Presley
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Emerges as rocks leading taken
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Brown vs board
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Law case against African American
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Thurgood Marshall
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Argued on browns behalf.
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Little rock nine
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Arkansas school had first 9 black students in it
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Rosa parks
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Wouldn't give up her seat on the bus
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Montgomery improvement association
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Group of local civil rights people
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Martin Luther king jr
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Baptist minister
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Civil rights act of 1957
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Bill made it a crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Felix longoria
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Mexican American soldier
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League of united Latin American citizens
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Helped efforts of GI forum
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Ralph Ellison
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Published invisivle man
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote the novel on the road
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Beats
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A small but influential group of writers.
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Urban renewal programs
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Created to replace old rundown inner city buildings.
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