A Tale of 2 Presidents
Raise the minimum wage, increase aid to agriculture and education, and enact a national health insurance program
The Fair Deal
Minimum amount of income one needs to meet basic needs
poverty line
This Dodger crossed a line, becoming the first black man to play in major league baseball
Name the Dodger and the line he crossed.
Jackie Robinson- Color Line
The first planned housing community in the nation
Levittown
"Separate but equal" was established by THIS 1896 SCOTUS case
Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregationist Southern Democratic party that ran against Truman in the 1948
Dixiecrats- Strom Thurmond
This book described how two America's existed in the post war period
The Other America- Michael Harrington
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
legal segregation
de jure segregation
Vaccine created in the 1950s that helped to increase life expectancy
polio vaccine
This Amendment capped the Presidential term limit to 2 terms
22nd
the industry of food production by large corporations or wealthy individuals
agribusiness
Brown v. Board was decided by THIS court known for its civil rights activism
The Warren Court
Strategy to encourage consumption by having products seem out of date after a certain period of time
Redrawing district lines to give an advantage to the party in power
Gerrymandering
"Conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to people"
President + vocab word
Eisenhower- Modern Republicanism
Encouraged American Indians to move to cities and provided transportation and initial assistance to find housing
Truman signed THIS, desegregating the Armed Forces
Executive Order 9981
MAP
Sunbelt
People: water projects, A/C
Companies: Fewer unions, lower wages
Nation's oldest civil rights group that fought segregation through the courts
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Congress passed over Truman's veto- limited the power of unions.
Ex: banned closed shops
Taft-Hartley Act
This funded public housing and urban renewal programs, but in practice increased urban poverty
Housing Act of 1949
Brown II
What is the name of the court case that overturned limits on interracial marriage (1)?
What are laws that ban interracial marriage called (2)?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
anti-miscegenation laws
CHART
baby boom