1960s

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

• HUD and CPB
• VISTA and Job Corps
• NEA and SeniorCare
• Medicare and Medicaid

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

What Great Society program provided affordable housing?

• HUD
• HBK
• NATO
• NAACP

Johnson's domestic program was called

• New Deal
• Square Deal
• Welfare
• Great Society

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

Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty" in America began with the passage of

• the Area Redevelopment Act

• the Omnibus Housing Act

• the Civil Rights Act

• the Economic Opportunity Act

President Kennedy developed which of the following strategies to supplement the Cold War policies of his predecessors?

• containment

• massive retaliation

• flexible response

• detente

Lyndon B. Johnson would have described his political views as most similar to which of the following politicians?

• Kennedy

• Eisenhower

• Roosevelt

• Nixon

Kennedy had difficulty convincing Congress to support his proposals because he

• did not take a strong anti-communist position

• lacked a clear mandate

• favored causes that would benefit only wealthy Americans

• was young and inexperienced

Which of the following Supreme Court decisions banned racial segregation int he nation's schools?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Reynolds v. Simms

• Baker v. Carr

• Westberry v. Sanders