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31 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, 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 thr 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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Reduced the strength of organized labor
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examines racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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States' Rights Party
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J. Strom Thurmond
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South Carolina governor as president candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president
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Thomas Dewey
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Governor of New York
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Fair Deal
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Truman's proposal of new reforms
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Texan who supervised the Department 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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Companies introduced machines that could perform industrial operations faster and more effiently than human workers
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO first president
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Highway Act
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Expanded the nation' highway system
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Baby boom
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The soaring birthrate accounted for more than 90 percent of the increase
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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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New type of music, reworked rhythm and blues
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Legal challenge to segregation in public schools that came before the Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer, argued on behalf of Brown
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Little Rock Nine
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African American Students
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Rosa Parks
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An African American seamstress, refused to give up her seat on the bus
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther King Jr
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26 year old Baptist minister
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Made it a 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 Untied Latin American Citizens
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Adopted many of the same tactics to fight for Hispanic rights that the NAACP used o champion African American rights
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Ralph Ellison
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Published Invisible Man
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Jack Kerouac
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On The Road
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Urban renewal
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Replaced old, run down inner city buildings with new ones
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