APUSH P8 CQ #5 8.9, 8.12-8.13

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT

• rent supplements for poor families

• a universal health care program

• federal funds to improve the nation’s inner-city districts

• early childhood education programs

The major objective of the antipoverty programs of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society was to

• break the cycle of poverty among poor people through education and job training

• provide temporary benefits to the “new poor” during times of recession

• simplify welfare by replacing job programs with cash grants for the poor

• transfer the federal government’s responsibility for welfare back to the states

One way in which immigration policy in the 1960s differed from immigration policy enacted in the 1920s was that legislation in the 1960s

• imposed a ban on immigration from Asia

• loosened restrictions on immigration on the basis of national origin

• established limits on the number of immigrants allowed in the country

• barred immigration from Eastern European countries

Which of the following was a major effect of the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 ?

• The total number of immigrants admitted to the United States was significantly reduced.

• Immigrants from within the Western Hemisphere were given preference over other immigrants.

• Immigration from Britain, Ireland, and Germany increased significantly.

• Immigration from Asia increased significantly.

The festival near Woodstock, New York, in 1969 is most closely associated with the

• women’s liberation movement

• gay rights movement

• Beat Generation

• counterculture

Throughout the presidential election campaign of 1980, Ronald Reagan’s view of the best economic policy to pursue was based on his belief that

• there was insufficient government spending to stimulate economic growth

• international trade was the most important source of growth for the United States economy

• excessive taxation left citizens with less money to save and invest

• foreign countries were flooding markets with cheap goods and services

One of the goals of Reaganomics was to

• encourage private investment through tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy

• redistribute income to the bottom fifth of wage earners

• reduce the United States nuclear arsenal

• restrict immigration from Mexico

In the Influential 1962 work Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned

• that discrimination against deaf Americans violated civil rights laws

• about the dangerous impact of pesticides

• that many cars built in the United States were unsafe

• that poverty in the United States threatened the overall economy

“Reaganomics,” or supply-side economics, led to which of the following?

• Large increases in the incomes of wealthy Americans

• A decline in unemployment and poverty

• Greater tax revenues than government expenditures

• Lower military expenditures than during the Carter administration

The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

• provided job training, food stamps, rent supplementals, remedial education and other programs meant to help poor citizens

• coordinated efforts at urban planning and rebuilding neighborhoods in decaying cities

• provided Federal funds directly to public schools to imporve their quality, one of the most far reaching federal laws passed up to that point

• provided subsidized healthcare for poor and elderly citizens