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a form of government in which power is vested in the hands of a small business elite
ogligarchy
the ___ was a law that outlawed the close shop, outlawed secondary boycotts, required union officials to sign loyalty oaths, and permitted the president to call a cooling off period to delay any strike that might endanger us safety or health
Taft Harley Act
The _____ was the overall name given to President Truman’s domestic policy
Fair Deal
the federal law that required organizations deemed communist by the attorney general to register with the Department of Justice
McCarran Internal Security Act
Truman was able to stage an upset victory in 1948 president election because
he recruited the old new deal coalition and won most of the black vote
in _________ (1954) the US Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment
Brown v Board of Education
The ________ (July 1958) was a US foreign policy statement in which us pledged military and economic aid to any nation in the middle east threatened by insurrection from within or invasion from without
Eisenhower Doctrine
by 1960, one-half of one percent of us companies accounted for more than ____ % of total corporate income in the us
50
Rachel Carson’s ______ (1962) warned of the dangers of ddt and other pesticides, leading to state and federal bans and the emergence of an environmental movement in the us
silent spring
the unionized labor force in the us dropped from 36% in 1963 to ________ by the 1950s
31
the ______ refers to huge population growth between ca 1946 and 1965 spurring by an increase in the fertility rate
baby BOOM
By the end of the 1950s, women compromised ____% of the us labor force
33
this 1955 - 1956 event protested segregation on public transport in a southern city
Montgomery bus boycott
in the 1950s which was the poorest minority group n the us
native Americans
by 1960 _____% of university scientists engineers worked full time on govt research, most of which was militarily related
33
__________ was the name given to what was essentially rhythm and blues but performed by white musicians and singers
rock n roll
which of the following was NOT PART of the holy trinity of the 1960s civil rights legislation
civil rights act of 1960
which of the following marked sncc disillusionment with the democratic party and with liberals in general?
the failure of the democratic party leaders to seat the delegation from the Mississippi freedom democratic party at the 1964 convention
the dissatisfaction noted above at #18 led to the rise of the ______ movement which abandoned earlier civil rights leaders commitment to integration and nonviolence
black panthers
the late 1960s saw a wave of inner-city riots, beginning with _______
Newark
__________ was a leading preacher in the nation of islam, initially preaching separation and violent resistance to white racism, his pilgrimage to Mecca caused him to change his mind believing that inner racial cooperation was possible. Assassinated Feb 1965
Malcolm X
The resurgence of women’s rights activism after world war II was marked by the 1963 publication of betty Friedman’s book
the feminine mystiqUE
Antiwar Protests began in 1965 with
teach-ins at Univerity of Michigan
In June 1962, the students for a democratic society published the ______ which called for more genuine human relations and participatory democracy
Port Huron Statement
