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Chapter 27 Note Cards
Note cards for chapter 27 in Honors History II
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12th Grade
12/15/2011

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Interstate Highway Act
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Law passed by Eisenhower that created 40,000 miles of road.
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GI Bill
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Provided loans to vets for school, homes, and businesses
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George Meany
Definition
Leader of the AFL-CIO
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Baby Boom
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An rapid influx of births during a period of time.
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National Outdoor Recreation Review Commission
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This created a process for conservation.
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Diners Club
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The first credit card company.
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Assimilation
Definition
Being brought into conformity
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Billy Graham
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Famous TV evangelist during the 1950s.
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Benjamin Spock
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Pediatrician that wrote a book that said that the mother should stay home and raise the children if the parents wanted the children to have stable and secure upbringing.
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Marilyn Monroe
Definition
Sex icon during the 1950's and 1960's.
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The Catcher and the Rye
Definition
novel by J.D. Salinger about a student that was concerned about fitting in.
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Elvis Presley
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'The King of Rock' Started a different type of music and changed society in the 1950s.
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Taft-Hartley Act
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Limited union power by saying that states could prohibit union shop.
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Fair Deal
Definition
Truman's program that caused for raising the minimum wage, social security expansion, and tried for more civil rights.
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Jackie Robinson
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A black man that played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Brown vs. the Board of Education
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Ruled that separate but equal was ultimately unequal.
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Little Rock Nine
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Nine African American students that started to go to an all-white school in Arkansas during the initial desegregation movement.
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Rosa Parks
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Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person and caused a domino effect for the civil rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leader of the black civil rights movement and created a way of peaceful protesting.
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Chicano
Definition
Term for Mexican Americans
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Termination Policy
Definition
Program created to eliminate reservations as political entities.
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