to pass the civil rights and tax-cut bills that Kennedy had sent to Capitol Hill
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" succeeded?
  • After Kennedy's assassination, what did Johnson urge Congress to do?
  • What was a result of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on housing?
  • What were the pillars of Johnson's "Great Society"?
The Supreme Court during the period when Earl Warren was Chief Justice, noted for its activism in the areas of civil rights and free speech
  • Warren Court
  • Economic Opportunity Act
  • What law was Johnson's main offensive on the "war on poverty" and the cornerstone of his Great Society?
  • What programs were created by the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)?
• the Job Corps Youth Training Program• VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)• Project Head Start, an education program for underprivileged preschoolers• the Community Action Program, which encouraged poor people to participate in public works programs
  • What programs were created by the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)?
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions regarding reapportionment affect political power in the United States?
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
a young lawyer, wrote a book, "Unsafe at Any Speed", that sharply criticized the U.S. automobile industry for ignoring safety concerns. His testimony helped persuade Congress to establish safety standards for automobiles and tires.
  • What is the Job Corps?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
  • Who is Robert Weaver?
  • Who is Ralph Nader?
it prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex and granted the federal government new powers to enforce its provisions
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
  • What was the Water Quality Act of 1965?
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
it ruled school segregation unconstitutional
  • What is Brown v. Board of Education?
  • What was triggered by Johnson's policy on cleaning up the environment?
  • What is the Job Corps?
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
it spurred economic growth. People spent more, which meant profits for businesses, which increased tax revenues and lowered the federal budget deficit
  • In February of 1964, Congress passed a tax reduction into law. What were the results?
  • Why did Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, scare many Americans?
  • How did consumer advocates make headway during the Johnson Administration?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
it required states to clean up rivers
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
  • What was triggered by Johnson's policy on cleaning up the environment?
  • What was the Water Quality Act of 1965?
A program, established in 1965, that provides health insurance for people on welfare
  • President Johnson styled himself as a "New Dealer" and idolized what former president?
  • What were the two programs created as part of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on improving the nation's healthcare system?
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
Medicare and Medicaid
  • Why did Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, scare many Americans?
  • Medicare
  • What is the Job Corps?
  • What were the two programs created as part of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on improving the nation's healthcare system?
where Goldwater advocated intervention in Vietnam, Johnson assured the American people that sending U.S. troops there "would offer no solution at all to the real problem of Vietnam."Johnson later became known as a "war hawk" because he sent troops to Vietnam and escalated the conflict
  • Who is Robert Weaver?
  • Who is Ralph Nader?
  • Why did Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, scare many Americans?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
the environmental movement in the US
  • What was the Water Quality Act of 1965?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
  • What was triggered by Johnson's policy on cleaning up the environment?
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
A law that increased the number of immigrants allowed to settle in the United States
  • How did the Warren Court address the issue of reapportionment?
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions expand the rights of people accused of crimes?
  • Economic Opportunity Act
  • Immigration Act of 1965
it created"big government": an oversized bureaucracy, too many regulations, waste and fraud, and rising budget deficitsit also created a culture of dependency
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" failed?
  • What were the pillars of Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What was a result of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on housing?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
the Economic Opportunity Act
  • What were the two programs created as part of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on improving the nation's healthcare system?
  • Great Society
  • What law was Johnson's main offensive on the "war on poverty" and the cornerstone of his Great Society?
  • Warren Court
a voting rights measure that was the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
  • What was the Water Quality Act of 1965?
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
  • What was the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
1) appropriating money to build low-rent public housing and helping low- and moderate-income families pay for better private housing; 2) establishing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD);3) appointing Robert Weaver, the first African-American cabinet member in American history, as Secretary of HUD
  • What did Johnson consider the "key" to unlocking the Great Society?
  • How were the Warren Court's decisions on expanding the rights of those accused of crimes received by politicians and the public?
  • What was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965? What was its significance?
  • How did Johnson's "Great Society" focus on the housing crisis in the United States?
the first African-American cabinet member in US history (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development)
  • Who is Robert Weaver?
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • Why did Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, scare many Americans?
  • Who is Ralph Nader?
it bettered the lives of millions of Americans by giving them many of the protections and safety nets needed to improve life
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" failed?
  • What was a result of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on housing?
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" succeeded?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
they convinced Congress to pass major safety laws, including a truth-in-packaging law that set standards for labeling consumer goods and the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
  • In February of 1964, Congress passed a tax reduction into law. What were the results?
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions regarding reapportionment affect political power in the United States?
  • How did consumer advocates make headway during the Johnson Administration?
a 1962 book by Rachel Carson that exposed the hidden danger: of the effects of pesticides on the environment. Carson's book and the public's outcry resulted in the Water Quality Act of 1965
  • What was "Silent Spring"?
  • Why was education an important cornerstone in Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965? What was its significance?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
they had established immigration quotas that discriminated strongly against people from outside Western Europe; they discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans and barred Asians completely
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions regarding reapportionment affect political power in the United States?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
  • What had the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origins Act of 1924 done?
  • How did consumer advocates make headway during the Johnson Administration?
he suggested that he might use nuclear weapons on Cuba and North Vietnam
  • Who is Robert Weaver?
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions regarding reapportionment affect political power in the United States?
  • What was each candidate's (Johnson's and Goldwater's) stance on Vietnam in 1964?
  • Why did Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president in 1964, scare many Americans?
1) Baker v. Carr (1962) was the first of several decisions that established the principle of "one person, one vote." 2) Reynolds v. Sims (1964), it extended the principle of "one person, one vote" to state legislative districts.3) the Court asserted that the federal courts had the right to tell states to reapportion—redivide—their districts for more equal representation. 4) the Court ruled that congressional district boundaries should be redrawn so that districts would be equal in population
  • How did the Warren Court address the issue of reapportionment?
  • Describe the major decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s.
  • How did Johnson's "Great Society" focus on the housing crisis in the United States?
  • How did the Warren Court's decisions expand the rights of people accused of crimes?
it provided more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools purchase textbooks and new library materials becoming one of the earliest federal aid packages for education in the nation's history
  • Why was education an important cornerstone in Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965? What was its significance?
  • What was a result of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on housing?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
FDR
  • Medicaid
  • President Johnson styled himself as a "New Dealer" and idolized what former president?
  • What programs were created by the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA)?
  • Medicare
Housing and Urban Development
  • What does EPA stand for?
  • What does HUD stand for?
  • What did Johnson consider the "key" to unlocking the Great Society?
  • What was "Silent Spring"?
Liberals praised the decisions, arguing that they placed necessary limits on police power and protected the right of all citizens to a fair trial. Conservatives bitterly criticized the Court, claiming that Mapp and Miranda benefited criminal suspects and severely limited the power of the police to investigate crimes
  • How were the Warren Court's decisions on expanding the rights of those accused of crimes received by politicians and the public?
  • Describe the major decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s.
  • What were the pillars of Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
President Lyndon B Johnson's program to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the United States
  • Great Society
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • How did consumer advocates make headway during the Johnson Administration?
it shifted the nation's political power from rural to urban areas
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" succeeded?
  • What were the pillars of Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What was a result of Johnson's "Great Society" focus on housing?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
1) poverty2) urban renewal3) education4) civil rights5) he environment6) consumer protection
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" failed?
  • Describe the major decisions by the Warren Court in the 1960s.
  • What were the pillars of Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • After Kennedy's assassination, what did Johnson urge Congress to do?
education
  • Why did some feel Johnson's "Great Society" failed?
  • How did Johnson's "Great Society" focus on the housing crisis in the United States?
  • What was the impact of Johnson's "Great Society"?
  • What did Johnson consider the "key" to unlocking the Great Society?
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