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28 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill of Rights
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The bill provided pensions and govt. loans to help veterans start through the GI Bill to attend college.
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Employment Act
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Act committed the govt. to promoting full employment and production.
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Council of Economic Advisers
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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 by Truman in December 1946, to examine racial issues.
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Dixiecrats
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They called for continued racial segregation.
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J. Strom Thurmond
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South Carolina governor ran as the Dixiecrats presidential candidates.
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Henry Wallace
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Former Vice-President who left the Democratic Party to found a new Progressive Party.
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Thomas Dewey
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Ran for the Republicans in the 1946 election. Got upset by Truman.
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Fair Deal
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Proposed by Truman to help out the U.S.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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Man who supervised Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Modern Republicanism
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Eisenhower's approach to Domestic affairs.
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automation
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1950's companies introduced machines that greatly increased productivity.
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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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Greatly expanded the nation's highway system.
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baby boom
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The large of amount of new children in the 1950's.
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rock'n'roll
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Type of music.
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Elvis Presley
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Rock's leading talent.
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Juvenile Delinquency
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Anti-social behavior by the young.
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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Case that made the supreme court, about a black girl wanting to attend an all white elementary school.
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Thurgood Marshall
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NAACP lawyer who argued on Brown's behalf.
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Little Rock Nine
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9 black students who attended an all white school in Little Rock.
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Rosa Parks
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Women who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested.
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The Montgomery Improvement Association
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A group of local civil rights leaders in Montgomery.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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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 eligible people from voting.
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Felix Longoria
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Mexican-American Soldier killed during World War 2.
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Ralph Ellison
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published invisible man!
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