The Great Society

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

• one that ensured access to justice, education, decent housing, and health care for all Americans

• on that emphasized that all people are equal only in the eyes of God

• one in which extremism in the defense of liberty is encouraged 

• 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? And do good intentions pave the road to he!!?

• Minorities and the poor

• White, middle-class families

• Farmers and laborers

• Businessmen

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

• The Square Deal

• Laissez-Faire

• The New Deal

• The New Frontier

______ included programs to reduce poverty and racial injustice and to promote a better quality of life in the U.S.

• Great Society

• Perfect Society

Presidents Johnsons administrative agenda was to end poverty, reduce crime, abolish inequality and improve the environment. What was his Administrative agenda called?

• New Deal

• The Second New Deal

• Johnson Doctrine

• Great Society

LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs

• New Deal

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Welfare for All

• Southern Strategy

President Lyndon Johnson’s programs aimed at aiding the country’s poor through education, job training, proper health care, and nutrition.

• War on the poor

• war on poverty

The passage of the pieces of legislation in this list resulted in -

• the regulation of cabinet-level agencies

• federal guarantees of income

• limitations on government expenditures

• the creation of programs to alleviate poverty

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