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30 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 buisnesses and buy homes or farms.
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Council of Economic Advisers.
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Established 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 some strikes and outlawed closed-shop agreements.
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Established by Truman to examine racial issues.
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Dixiecrats
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Nickname for the States' Rights Party, who called for continued racial segregation.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Presidential candidate of the Dixiecrats.
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Henry Wallace
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One among many to leave the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party.
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Thomas Dewey
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Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, who smelled victory when the Democratic vote was split in 3.
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Fair Deal
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Promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance program, construction of affordable housing, increased aid to farmers, and the expansion of welfare benefits to more people.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Supervisor of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Modern Republicanism
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An approach to domestic affairs, described as "Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings."
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO's first president
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Highway Act of 1956
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Bill that greatly expanded the nation's highway system, making it easier for suburban residents to commute to jobs in the cities.
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Baby boom
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The soaring birthrate during the 1950's.
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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 through which teenagers could escape from the conformity of Suburbia.
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Case that challenged the legalization of segregation of education.
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Thurgood Marshal
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Lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf.
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Little Rock Nine
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The first nine colored students to attempt to enter a desegregating white school in Arkansas.
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Rosa Parks
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African American seamstress turned figure head of the civil rights movement when she refused to forfeit her seat at the front of the bus for a white person to sit.
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Spokesperson of the MIA
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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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Felix Longoria
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Mexican American soldier who was killed during WW2 and denied a funeral procession at a local chapel because of race.
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League of United Latin American Citizens
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Fought for the rights of Hispanic rights
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Ralph Ellison
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Influential African American writer
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The beats
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Small but influential group of writers and poets.
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Jack Kerouac
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One of the most famous of the beats writers
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Urban Renewal
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Improved inner-city housing
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