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31 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 business 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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To confer with the president on economic policy
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Taft Harley Act
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Reduced the strength of organized labor
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Commitee on civil rights
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Examined racial issues
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Nominated as presidential candidate for the Dixiecrats party
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Dixiecrats
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Political party for southern delegates
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Thomas Dewey
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Republican presidential canidate
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Henry Wallace
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Left the Democratic Party to join a Liberal one
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Texan, who supervised things that Eisenhower created
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Modern Republican
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This approach to domestic affairs
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George Meaney
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The fl-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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A lot of children were being born after WWII when the soldiers got back
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Juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior by the young
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Rock'n'roll
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Type of new music
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent
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Automation
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Greatly increased production
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Brown v Board of Education
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All about segregation, the schools made her walk a dangerous path so she could go to an African American school
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Thurgood Marshall
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Brown's lawyer
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Little Rock Nine
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These students weren't allowed to go into an all white school
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Rosa Parks
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African American seamstress who didn't move out of her seat for a white person
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The Montgomery Improvement Association
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Persuaded the community to continue boycotts
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Spokesman for civil rights
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Made it federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting
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Félix Longoria
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Mexican American soldier killed during WWII
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Adopted many tactics to fight for Hispanic rights that the NAACP used to champion American American rights
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Ralph Ellison
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Writer who wrote Invisible Man
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Beats
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A small but influential group of writers and poets
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Jack Kerouac
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Wrote On The Road
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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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