Lbj Great Society

What did the Great Society do for college students?

• Provided scholarships and grants

• Improved urban mass transit

• Protected the rights of the elderly

• Preserved scenic rivers and trails

What did Lyndon Johnson propose in the field of education?

• Work-study programs for college students

• Age Discrimination Act

• Aid to Appalachia

• Kennedy cultural center

What was the main goal of the War on Poverty?

• To eliminate racial discrimination

• To reduce poverty through job creation

• To improve public accommodations

• To provide handouts to the less affluent

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

• Improved urban mass transit

• Work-study programs

• College scholarships and grants

• Guaranteed health insurance

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

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

Do you think the Great Society was more of a success or more of a failure?

• The Great Society was more of a success.

• The Great Society was more of a failure.

What was the impact of the Civil Rights Act?

• It eliminated racial discrimination in public accommodations

• It provided healthcare for people over the age of 65

• It reduced the poverty rate in the United States

• It created work-study programs for college students

Lyndon B Johnson's administration was known as...

• The Great Society

• The New Deal

• The New Frontier

• The Patriots of America

Which BEST describes the impact of LBJ's Great Society?

• It was the biggest expansion in govt since the New Deal

• It shrank the size of the govt for the first time since the New Deal

• It did nothing to improve the lives of the American People

• It completely eradicated poverty and racism