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17 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 businesses and buy homes or farms
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Employment Act
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Committed the government to promoting full employment & production
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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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Created 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 for presidential candidate
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Henry Wallace
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Former vice president, left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party
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Thomas Dewey
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Governor of New York, nominated as presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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Truman's deal which promised full employment, 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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Held supervision over Eisenhower's 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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greatly increased productivity
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Highway Act
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Contributed to suburban growth
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Baby Boom
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Increase in U.S. population during the 1950s
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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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Reworked rhythm and blues
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