Johnson's Great Society

The War on Poverty did NOT include which of the following measures?

• the Equal Pay Act of 1963

• the Food Stamp Act of 1964

• the Social Security Act of 1965

• the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

What was a goal of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society?

• to increase the collective bargaining power of labor unions

• to provide medical care for the elderly and people with low incomes

• to transform the United States' economy into a command economy

• to improve and increase the size of the United States' nuclear arsenal

What contributed to the rise of social activism in the United States in the 1960s?

• US involvement in the Vietnam War

• the economic power of monopolies

• opposition to the Great Society

• the popularity of yellow journalism

What was one reason that Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to install nuclear missiles in Cuba?

• He planned to threaten and invade neighboring Caribbean nations.

• He planned to seize the missiles and develop his own nuclear program.

• He wanted to force the United States to end its trade embargo on Cuba.

• He wanted to prevent the United States from interfering in Cuban politics.

Read the student's notes and answer the question.

What is the student who wrote down these notes studying?

• the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• the decision in Brown v. Board of Education

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964