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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Servicemen's readjustment act
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Employmwnt Act
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Committed the government to promoting fulk 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 ti end some strikes and outlawed closed shop agreements
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Committee on Civil rigts
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Examine racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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Called for continued racial segregations
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Te presidential candidate for the dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president
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Thomas Dewey
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Another presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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A series of new reforms
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Department of heakth, education and welfare under supervision of this department
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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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The AFL's first presidentn boasted that he had never led a strike
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Highway Act of 1956
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Also contributed to suburban growth
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Baby boom
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A massive increase in population 90% caused by the increased birthrate account.
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Juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior by te young
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Rock 'n' roll
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New type of music full of live upbeat fast paced music
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Elvis Presley
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The king of rock 'n' roll
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Brown v. Board of Education
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A case involving a girl who had to walk longer distances because of refused acceptance to a closer school because of an all white
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Turgood Marshall
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Argued on Brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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Entering the school
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Rosa parks
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African American seamstress
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil leaders
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Martin Lurther King Jr.
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A 26-year old Baptist minister
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Formed in 1929
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Félix Longoria
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A Mexian American soldier
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Bill made it a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Ralph Ellison
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Published invisible man
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Beats
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A small but influential group of writers and poets, challenged both the literary conventions
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Jack Kerouac
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Writer of On the Road
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Urban renewal program
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A project to improve national housing
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