Great Society test review

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

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

• Medicaid
• Kindergarten
• Head Start
• Medicare

Declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Baker v. Carr (1962)
• Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
• New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

Established suspects' right to a court-appointed attorney if suspects were unable to afford one

• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Affirmed right of the accused to an attorney during police questioning

• Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

Required police to inform suspects of their rights during the arrest process

• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Loving v. Virginia (1967)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Who wrote Silent Spring in 1962 which pointed out problems of pesticides?

• Rachel Ward

• Rachel Carson

• Ralph Nader

• Sargent Shriver