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27 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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A guy named Bill who has a strong sense a nationalism.
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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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Established by the employment act to confer with the president on economic policy.
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Gave judges the power to end strikes
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Created by Truman to examine racial issues
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Dixiecrats
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Called for continued racial segregation
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Nominated to run for president by the Dixiecrats
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Henry Wallace
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Former VP
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Thomas Dewey
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Democrat nominated to run for president
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Fair Deal
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Like the square/new deal but by Truman
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Overall Culprit Hobby
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Something productive that came from Texas.
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Modern Republicanism
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Some sort of policy
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Automation
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Jobs were assigned to machines instead of humans
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George Meany
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AFL-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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Sexy times galore
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Juvenile delinquency
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Antisocial behavior of the young
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Rock 'n roll
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Musical master race
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Elvis Presley
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Some real fat dude that dresses like a drag queen. He died in his bathroom.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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A black girl couldn't go to an all-white school
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Thurgood Marshall
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Argued on brown's behalf
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Little Rock Nine
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Nine kids that went to a white high school
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Rosa Parks
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Didn't leave her seat on the front of the bus
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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Supported Rosa Parks
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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A very famous civil rights leader
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Made it a federal crime to prevent blacks from voting
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Felix Longoria
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Slider killed in WWII
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