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GI Bill of Rights
Provided pensions and government loans to help veterans start businesses and buy homes or farms.
Employment Act
Committed the government to promoting full employment and production.
Council of Economic Advisers
Conferred with the president on economic policy.
Taft-Hartley Act
Gave judges the power to end some strikes and outlawed closed shop agreements.
Committee on Civil Rights
Was created to examine racial issues.
Dixiecrats
Called for continued racial segregation.
J. Strom Thurmond
The Dixiecrats presidential candidate.
Henry Wallace
Former vice president who left the Democratic Party.
Thomas Dewey
The republican candidate for presidency.
Fair Deal
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.
Oveta Culp Hobby
The president also supported the largest increase in educational spending up to that time.
Modern Republicansim
Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings.
Automation
greatly increased productivity by using machines instead of humans.
George Meany
AFL CIO's first president boasted that he had never led a strike
Highway Act
Greatly expanded the nation's highway system.
Baby boom
The soaring birthrate in the 1950's
Rock n Roll
Reworked rhythm and blues, a style popular among African American performers and audiences that combined blues music with more energetic rhythms
Elvis Presly
Rock's leading talent
Brown v. Board of Education
Linda Brown, an Arican American student from Topeka, Kansas had to go to a black school farther away from her home than the white school
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP lawyer that argued on Brown's behalf
Little Rock Nine
The blacks prevented from going to Alabama.
Rosa Parks
African american seamstress that refused to follow the laws of segregation
MIA
A group of civil rights leaders that persuadedthe community to boycott buses.