Great Society Quiz

Lyndon Johnson's plan for improving America was called the

• New Frontier

• Fair Deal

• Great Society

• New Deal

This law created job training programs as well as starting the War on Poverty. It passed in 1964. It was called the

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Medical Care Act

• Elementary & Secondary Education Act

• Voting Rights Act

Medicare & Medicaid were created to provide health care to which groups of people?

• black citizens

• elderly & poor

• returning veterans

• school children

LBJ's domestic programs

• put the US into bankruptcy

• were the largest spending on social programs in US history

• kept many Americans from dying

• dropped the US from their status as the leading superpower

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.

What Great Society program provided affordable housing?

• HUD
• HBK
• NATO
• NAACP

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

• Medicaid
• Kindergarten
• Head Start
• Medicare

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

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

• Medicaid
• Kindergarten
• Head Start
• Medicare

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

• The Square Deal

• Laissez-Faire

• The New Deal

• The New Frontier