America: president Kennedy’s ‘New Frontier’

Question 1

What was the peace corps?

Answer 1

An organisation that sends volunteers abroad to assist people in poorer countries

Question 2

What did John F Kennedy do to help the economy?

Answer 2

Cut taxes to give people more money to spend
Made $900 available to businesses to create new jobs
Gave grants to companies to buy high tech equipment and train their workers to use it
Increased government spending on the armed forces, creating jobs

Question 3

What did John F Kennedy do to help healthcare and poverty?

Answer 3

Increased minimum hourly Wage
$4.9 billion made available for loans to improve housing
Training schemes for the unemployed
Social security act
Increased funding for reaserch into mental illness

Question 4

What did the social security act do?

Answer 4

Increased benefits for the elderly and unemployed

Question 5

What were the criticisms of the new frontier?

Answer 5

New equipment in factories meant fewer workers needed - some people lost their jobs
Minimum wage was only helpful for people who worked
Efforts for providing fundings in schools failed

Question 6

By 1963, what number did unemployment stand at?

Answer 6

4.5 million (only 1 million less that 1960)