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Honors History
Chapter 27 Notecards
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12/12/2011

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Baby Boom
Definition
an unprecedented population growth
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Interstate Highway Act
Definition
26 million dollars spent on 40,000 miles of road. passed by eisenhower in 1956
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GI bill of rights
Definition
provided loans to vets for business, education, and homes.
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business conglomerate
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a bunch of businesses combined into one.
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land uglification
Definition
destroying natural resources and making nature much more ugly.
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reforestation
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the rebuilding of forests and other natural resources.
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Diners Club
Definition
the first credit card created in 1950
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marilyn monroe
Definition
first sex symbol
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poverty amid affluence
Definition
¼ of the population will live below subsistence level. Most live in inner cities like New York or are the rural poor living in Appalachia, Mississippi, or are migrant farmers.
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subsistence level
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the level needed for survival.
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Modern Republicanism
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“conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings.”
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Eisenhower
Definition
anti-communist. helped end the korean war. won 41 states.
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Brown vs Board
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creates " seperate facilities are inherently unequal"
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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Creates seperate but equal.
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little rock 9
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9 black students that went to Central High School. not liked.
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Orval Faubus
Definition
governor said that it was not possible to maintain order.
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Linda Brown
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a 8 year old girl who has to walk past a white school to get to her bus. takes the case to supreme court.
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martin Luther King JR.
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he was a baptist minister that had a PHD in philosophy. organized the bus boycott.
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Civil rights Act of 1957
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allows the Justice dept. to take control of all court cases that deal weith civil rights.
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Civil Rights Act of 1960
Definition
stopped Voter Discrimination
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