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32 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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Provided pensions and govt. loans to help veterans start businesses 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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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 some strikes and out-lawed closed shop agreements.
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Committee on Civil Rights
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Created by Truman in 1946 to examine racial issues.
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Dixiecrats
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States' Rights Party, called for continued racial segregation.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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Presidential candidate nominated by the Dixiecrats.
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Henry Wallace
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Along with other liberal New Dealers left the Democratic party to form the new Progressive Party.
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Thomas Dewey
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Republican candidate who was premeditatedly thought to win the election.
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Fair Deal
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Promised full employment, a higher minimum wage, a national health insurance plan, and others.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Department of Health, Education, and Welfare were established by Eisenhower under this Texan.
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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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Machines that could worker faster than workers.
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George Meany
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The AFL-CIO's first president who boasted that he had never led a strike.
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Highway Act
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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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People began having more children; 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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Music that reworked rhythm and blues.
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Elvis Presley
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Emerged as rock's leading talent during the 50s-60s.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Segregation prevented a young girl from attending an all-white school.
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Thurgood Marshall
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Lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf.
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Little Rock Nine
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National Guard prevented these 9 African American students from entering school.
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger, and was arrested for it.
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Montgomery Improvement Association
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Group of civil rights leaders who persuaded the community to continue boycotting the bus system.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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MIA spokesperson who was a 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 people from from voting.
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Felix 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 of the same tactics of the GI bill to fight for hispanic rights.
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Ralph Ellison
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African American writer published "Invisible Man" in 1952.
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beats
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Small influential group of poets.
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Urban renewal
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Put in place to renew and rebuild buildings.
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Jack Kerouac
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Best-known beats worker.
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