U.S. Chapter 48 Progressing Level Assessmentment

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What kind of society did President Lyndon B. Johnson envision when he created the Great Society programs?

• One that ensured access to justice, education, decent housing, and health care for all Americans.

• One that emphasized that all people are equal only in the eyes of God.

• One in which extremism in the defense of liberty is encouraged .

• One that made separate schools for black and white children truly equal.

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Names of the Great Society Programs that provide health insurance to the elderly and covers low income people with medical needs?

• Job Corps

• VISTA

• National Endowment for the Humanities

• Medicare

• Medicaid

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Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?

• Minorities and the poor

• White, middle-class families

• Farmers and laborers

• Businessmen

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What Great Society program provided affordable housing?

• HUD

• HBK

• NATO

• NAACP

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Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal

• Square Deal

• Welfare

• Great Society

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Some critics complained that the Great Society programs

• gave the rich too many tax breaks

• gave the federal government too much power

• paid too little attention to health care

• favored rural over urban citizens

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This is a pre-school program for low-income children

• Medicaid

• Kindergarten

• Head Start

• Medicare

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"The Johnson Treatment" was a tactic LBJ used to “persuade” people to vote for his legislation.

• True

• Flase

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President Johnson's success in getting many of former President Kennedy's programs passed through Congress was due in part to

• his successful policy Vietnam

• his experience and skill as a politician

• his lack of desire to help less fortunate people

• the support of his hand picked cabinet

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Several of the important decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren focused on

• medical care for the poor and elderly

• continuing segregation policies in American public schools

• declaring Great Society legislation unconstitutional

• protecting the constitutional rights of citizen accused of crimes