America And The Great Society

Question 1

What was the New Frontier?

Answer 1

Kennedy’s idea of improving America by making sure everyone had things like wealth and employment

Question 2

Give some positive things JFK did toward civil rights

Answer 2

• He gave more jobs to African Americans than any other president
• created a CEEO that was meant to ensure everyone employed by the government had equal opportunities

Question 3

Give some negative things JFK did towards civil rights

Answer 3

• was concerned of what southern politicians and voters would have thought of him
• tried to get MLK to call of his Washington DC great March

Question 4

Give some positive things JFK did towards the economy

Answer 4

• Made $900 million available to businesses to create jobs

- gave grants to companies to buy high tech equipment and train workers on how to use it

Question 5

Give some negative things JFK did towards the economy

Answer 5

• The new equipment sometimes led to job losses

- by 1963, spending cuts in the government jobs made 4.5 million unemployed

Question 6

Give some positives JFK did towards healthcare and decreasing poverty

Answer 6

• Increased the minimum hourly wage from $1 to $1.25

- made $4.8 billion available for loans, home improvements, slum clearing and building roads and phone lines

Question 7

What were some negative things involving JFK in healthcare and decreasing poverty?

Answer 7

• The minimum hourly wage was only helpful to the unemployed
• us congress defeated JFKs proposals to Medicare

Question 8

Give a positive JFK did towards education

Answer 8

• Young Americans liked the peace corps idea where they could be teachers, nurses, doctors, technicians advisors and help in poor countries
• JFKs efforts to provide federal funds towards schools were denied by congress

Question 9

Why did congress deny JFKs efforts to provide federal funds to schools?

Answer 9

Congress was mainly southern politicians who clashed with Kennedy over civil rights and so refused to support his plans

Question 10

What was the difference between LBJ and JFK?

Answer 10

LBJ didn’t care what others thought of him and was devious and manipulative whereas Kennedy actively wanted people to like him

Question 11

What did Jonson himself do about civil rights?

Answer 11

Introduced the voting rights act banning literacy tests and other obstacles preventing African Americans from voting

Question 12

What did Johnson follow up from Kennedy for civil rights?

Answer 12

Introduced the Civil Rights Act which banned discrimination based on race and gender employment and ended segregation in air public places

Question 13

What did Johnson carry out from Kennedy to improve environment?

Answer 13

Introduced the Model Cities Act to clear up inner city slums

Question 14

What did Johnson himself do about the environment?

Answer 14

Air and Water quality acts tightened controls over pollution

Question 15

What did Johnson do about poverty?

Answer 15

Introduced a Housing Act to fund low income housing

Question 16

What did Johnson follow up from Kennedy to improve health

Answer 16

Medicare was created to fund healthcare for elderly and low income families

Question 17

What was NOW and who established it?

Answer 17

National Organisation for Women established by Betty Friedan and others in 1066 to demand equal rights for women, collectively known as the feminist movement

Question 18

What did WWII change for women?

Answer 18

More women were working in factories and earning their own money giving them a sense of independence

Question 19

When did women earn what percentage less than men for the same job?

Answer 19

1963, 60%

Question 20

What % of women were doctors and what % of women were lawyers

Answer 20

4% lawyers and 7% doctors

Question 21

When was the Equal Pay Act and what did it do?

Answer 21

In 1964 banned discrimination and employment on the basis of race and sex by the Civil Rights act

Question 22

Give an example showing progress for women

Answer 22

• NOW had around 40,000 members after a few years of establishment
• in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled women had the right to a safe and legal abortion

Question 23

Give points that show a step back for women’s rights

Answer 23

• there was a stop ERA campaign by Phyllis Schlafy, successful in preventing equal rights from becoming part of the US constitution
• as late as 1985, there were still only 24 female politicians in congress out of 535 in total

Question 24

What did women do in 1968?

Answer 24

Over 400 ‘women’s libbers’ disrupted Miss America beauty contest in Atlantic City by setting up bins they called ‘freedom trashcans’ and throwing things like bras, curlers and high heels