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“The buck stops here”

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Harry Truman, 33rd president

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Too much money means

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Shortages, inflation, higher prices

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Benefits to veterans, one year of unemployment insurance, financial aid for colleges or trade school, gov loans.

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G.I. Bill

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Truman’s domestic policy

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“Fair deal”

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Truman called republican congress what

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Do nothing congress

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Phrase that means many blamed Truman for inflation, shortages, strikes

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To err is Truman

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Also called the labor management relations act, anti union

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Taft Hartley act

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22nd amendment

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Limited president to two terms in office or 10 years total

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Primarily in north, segregation by practice

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De facto segregation

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How did Truman help fight de facto segregation?

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Civil rights commission

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11
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Korean War was the first ______ war

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Integrated military

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Election of 1948 candidates

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Truman, strom Thurmond, Thomas Dewey

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Republican Candidate everyone thought was going to win:

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Thomas dewey

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How did Truman win?

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Labor unions hated republicans, overconfidence, Truman’s gutsy speeches

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Major League Baseball player, faced racism

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Jackie Robinson

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Candidates of election of 1952

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Dwight d Eisenhower, and Adlai Stevenson

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Used by congress to prevent voting on anything dealing with civil rights, delay tactic, senate, unlimited debate

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Filibustering

18
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Young black girl who wanted to attend white school in Kansas

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Linda brown

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Linda browns naacp lawyer

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Thurgood Marshall

20
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Equal protection of the laws, argued that segregation violated this amendment

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14th amendment

21
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Us supreme court ruling

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Segregation is unfair and unconstitutional

22
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Schools were able to integrate with

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“Deliberate speed”

23
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9 black students attempted to integrate to white school

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Little Rock nine

24
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Actually the first woman to refuse to move on the bus

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Claudette Colvin

25
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14 year old black boy brutally murdered for flirting with white woman

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Emmett till

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