1960-1965 Unit Review - LBJ and the Great Society

The term "Great Society" came to represent

• the glamorous image fo the Kennedy Administration

• the antion's anti-communist agenda

• Michael Harrington's affluent society

• the domestic programs of the Johnson Administration

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

• one the 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 that sympathized with the less fortunate but strictly limited government's role in helping them

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

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

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

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

• The elderly

• Immigrants

• Republicans

• Low-income individuals and families

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 

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 

True or False: President Johnson signed both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act during his time in the White House.

• True 
• False