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22 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Service men's Readjustment Act of 1944
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Employment Act
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Promoted full employment or production
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Council of Economic Advisers
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Established by the Employment Act
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Bill passed to reduce the strength of organized labor
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Examined 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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Party nominee from South Carolina
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Henry Wallace
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Left the Democratic Party and founded the Progressive party
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Thomas Dewey
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New York candidate
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Fair deal
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Promised by Truman: full employment, higher minimum wage, national health insurance , affordable housing, aid to farmers, and welfare benefits.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Helped Eisenhower
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Modern republicanism
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A new political view at that timeframe
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George Meany
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AFL-CIO's 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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Birthdate soared to 90%, some 30 million people, during the 50's
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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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Rocks leading talent.
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Rock'n'Roll
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New kind of music
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Brown vs. The Board of Education
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African American student from Topeka that fought segregation
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer that fought in behalf of Brown
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Little Rock Nine
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Arkansas National Guard prevented African American students from entering the school
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Rosa Parks
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African American seamstress
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