Chapter 2&3- Great Society

Question 1

Economic Opportunity Act

Answer 1

President Johnson’s law that declared a war on poverty with total victory as its goal

Question 2

Job Corps

Answer 2

It was an EOA program to reduce unemployment among the youth.

Question 3

Great Society

Answer 3

And American without poverty and racial injustice and where all children can enrich their minds.

Question 4

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Answer 4

A group of activist organized a splinter group in the states democratic party before the 1964 convention in Atlantic city to challenge Jim Crow‘s laws

Question 5

John Birch Society

Answer 5

A far right wing organization founded by Joseph Welch and named after a US missionary who was killed by Chinese communists.

Question 6

Barry Goldwater

Answer 6

He was a Republican senator from Arizona who ran for president in 1964 and wrote “the conscience of a conservative”

Question 7

Medicare and Medicaid

Answer 7

Medicare was the federal health insurance for older Americans.

Medicaid was federal health insurance for the poor who were not senior citizens.

Question 8

Elementary and secondary education act

Answer 8

ESEA

Poor children living in poor school districts could attend non-public schools and the families were given federal funds, not the schools.

Question 9

Kerner commission

Answer 9

Investigated the string of urban riots and blame them on white racism.

Question 10

Southern manifesto

Answer 10

It denounced the brown versus board of education school desegregation decision and politicians who signed it pledged to do all things lawful to have it overturned

Question 11

March on Selma #1

Answer 11

Dr. King and SCLC marched from Selma to Montgomery to demand that blacks be allowed to vote on equal terms as whites resulting in a violent Bloody Sunday.

Question 12

Fair housing act

Answer 12

It prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, ethnicity, disability, and or gender.

Question 13

Department of housing and urban development

Answer 13

It was founded in 1965 as part of the great society program to develop policies on housing and to solve urban problems.

Question 14

Urban renewal

Answer 14

It provided federal funding to cities to cover the cost of acquiring areas of cities perceived to be slums and those sites were then given to private developments to construct new housing.

Question 15

Rachel Carson

Answer 15

Her 1962 book silent spring awakening millions of readers to the environmental dangers of the unregulated spring of the insecticide, DDT.

Question 16

Stuart Udall

Answer 16

A former secretary of the interior, his book, 1963, the quiet crisis noted that Americans lived in an environment that was diminished by pollution, noise, and blight.

Question 17

Highway beautification act

Answer 17

It tackle the issue of visual blight :the ugly billboards in junkyards that were located along the nations interstate highway system.

Question 18

Land and water conservation act

Answer 18

In 1964, provided federal funds to state and local government‘s to acquire land and water for the benefit of all Americans especially for a re-creation, parks as well as forest and wildlife areas.

Question 19

Solid waste disposal act

Answer 19

Propose to protect human health and the natural environment from waste disposal as well as to reduce the amount of waste generated through recycling.

Question 20

National historic preservation act

Answer 20

It’s sought to preserve historical an archaeological sites in America.

Question 21

Endangered species preservation act

Answer 21

It set up a list of species native to the US that qualified as endangered and offered certain protection from the national wildlife refuge system.

Question 22

Motor vehicle air pollution control act

Answer 22

It establish air pollution standards for cars but it did not apply to exhaust emissions from trucks

Question 23

National foundations in the arts and humanities

Answer 23

The NEA was dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts bringing the arts to all Americans in providing leadership and arts education.

The NEH was dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation and Public programs in the humanities.

Question 24

Corporation for public broadcasting

Answer 24

It created to promote public broadcasting between 15 to 20% of the revenues of all public stations are federal funded.

Question 25

National public radio

Answer 25

The CPB formed national public radio, a nationwide network of public radio stations.

Question 26

Ralph Nadar

Answer 26

He is an American political activist and attorney concerned about consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democracy.

Question 27

National traffic and motor vehicle safety act

Answer 27

Is that new safety standards for motor vehicles and roads in response to increasing numbers of fatalities and injuries on the road.

Question 28

Cigarette smoking and advertising act

Answer 28

It was the first federal law to address the health hazards of cigarette smoking.

Question 29

Child safety act

Answer 29

A prohibited the use of textiles made from chemicals so dangerous that even packages warnings could not be enough for safe use.

Question 30

Wholesome meat act

Answer 30

It regulated all the nations meat to be inspected and it required that states have inspection program equal to the federal government.

Question 31

War on poverty

Answer 31

It was a response to a national poverty rate of around 19% and thus LBS believed in expanding the governments role in education and healthcare to reduce poverty.

Question 32

National trails system act

Answer 32

It created hiking trails to promote the preservation of public access to travel with in and enjoyment outdoor areas of the nation.

Question 33

George Wallace

Answer 33

He was the governor of Alabama who was elected in 1962 on the Jim Crow platform.

Question 34

Poor peoples campaign

Answer 34

PPC

Dr. King propose this campaign to demand that politicians provide more resources to create jobs for the poor.

Question 35

Coin tell pro

Answer 35

The FBI use this counter intelligence program to infiltrate communist groups as well as black hate groups.

Question 36

Riots after MLK’s death

Answer 36

There were irruption’s of rage and 168 cities with 43 deaths due to guns, stabbings and fires.

Question 37

White flight

Answer 37

The ghetto uprisings resulted in many whites fleeing to the suburbs, drove many middle-class blacks to safer neighborhoods, and left behind the most dysfunctional families.

Question 38

Rev. Ralph Albernathy

Answer 38

He became the leader of SCLC and PPC after kings assassination.

Question 39

Resurrection city

Answer 39

A month after kings death about 3000 members of the PPC and the SCLC set up this city near the Lincoln Memorial for42 days living and structures made of plastic, plywood and canvases.

Question 40

Washington urban league

Answer 40

That’s local chapter opposed racism in Washington DC demanding a bill to create 2.4 million jobs as well as 5.5 billion for low-cost housing.

Question 41

Solidarity day

Answer 41

About 50,000 people held a “march on Washington” that was a great let down with this Washington post headline “in the March 5 years later, frustration replaces hope”

Question 42

Limousine liberal

Answer 42

This was a successful person who is guilt made him or her want to support social movements to redress injustices, racial or otherwise.