The Great Society

What Great Society program provided affordable housing?

• HUD

• HBK

• NATO

• NAACP

Which of the following positions on today’s society would President Johnson have likely agreed?

• If we are to achieve a Great Society we have to make progress in making sure that all Americans share in the wealth our society produces

• People living in poverty should not expect any help in trying to improve their economic situation

• A persons educational level is not related to their economic success

• We have achieved a Great Society

Which of the following statements best connects Johnson’s Great Society to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal?

• The Great Society had no connection to the New Deal

• The Great Society sought, like the New Deal, to improve the lives of Americans facing economic hardships.

• The Great Society was created to solve problems created by the New Deal

• The Great Society and the New Deal were both ideas of the Republican Party

This law eliminated discrimination in all public places. It was passed in 1964. It was the

• Economic Opportunity Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Medical Care Act

What eventually take precedence over the Great Society programs?

• War in Vietnam

• Korean War

• World War II

• Gulf War

Rachel Carson is associated with what part of the Great Society?

• Environmental protections on clean water

• Head Start

• Food Stamps

• NEA

Please match the following actions with the correct response.

• the lives of many Americans improved

• The primary goals of the Great Society Programs were to end?

• gave the government too much power

• These provided free or low-cost medical insurance to welfare recipients and most Americans age 65 and over.  

• most spending on social programs

• LBJ's domestic programs

• Racial Injustice and Poverty

• Some critics complained that the Great Society programs

• Medicare and Medicaid

• What was one result of the Great Society?

Please match the act with the best response.

• To reduce poverty through job creation

• What initiative aimed to improve healthcare access for low-income families?

• To provide job training and education programs

• What was the main goal of the War on Poverty?

• Work-study programs for college students

• What did Lyndon Johnson propose in the field of education?

• Health insurance coverage for seniors

• What did Medicare provide for people over the age of 65?

• Community health centers to serve underserved populations

• What was the purpose of the Economic Opportunity Act?

What was Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic agenda?

• New Deal programs

• Monroe Doctrine policies

• Manifest Destiny initiatives

• Great Society programs

What did LBJ mean by "war on poverty"?

• proposal to reduce government assistance programs

• To provide job training, and education and lift Americans out of poverty

• strategy to promote economic inequality

• plan to increase taxes on the wealthy