The Great Society

What is not one of the three things Lyndon B. Johnson included in his speech about "The Great Society?"

• "There was too much legislation about government programs."

• "It is becoming harder and harder to live the good life in American cities today."

• "A second place place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside."

• "Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty."

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 was one result of the Great Society?

• Poverty was eliminated in the United States.

• the lives of many underprivileged Americans improved.

• President Johnson's popularity plummeted.

• The federal government shrank considerably.

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

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

• Medicaid
• Kindergarten
• Head Start
• Medicare

The purpose of Medicaid was to provide health care to which group of Americans?

• The elderly

• Immigrants

• Republicans

• Low-income individuals and families

The Great Society could be most compared to which previous government program?

• The Square Deal

• Laissez-Faire

• The New Deal

• The New Frontier

This created the Job Corps, VISTA, and Project Head Start in an effort to fight the “war on poverty”

• Civil Rights Act
• Economic Opportunity Act 
• Pendleton Service Act
• Warren Court