Chapter 2&3- Great Society Flashcards
Economic Opportunity Act
President Johnson’s law that declared a war on poverty with total victory as its goal
Job Corps
It was an EOA program to reduce unemployment among the youth.
Great Society
And American without poverty and racial injustice and where all children can enrich their minds.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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
John Birch Society
A far right wing organization founded by Joseph Welch and named after a US missionary who was killed by Chinese communists.
Barry Goldwater
He was a Republican senator from Arizona who ran for president in 1964 and wrote “the conscience of a conservative”
Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare was the federal health insurance for older Americans.
Medicaid was federal health insurance for the poor who were not senior citizens.
Elementary and secondary education act
ESEA
Poor children living in poor school districts could attend non-public schools and the families were given federal funds, not the schools.
Kerner commission
Investigated the string of urban riots and blame them on white racism.
Southern manifesto
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
March on Selma #1
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.
Fair housing act
It prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, ethnicity, disability, and or gender.
Department of housing and urban development
It was founded in 1965 as part of the great society program to develop policies on housing and to solve urban problems.
Urban renewal
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.
Rachel Carson
Her 1962 book silent spring awakening millions of readers to the environmental dangers of the unregulated spring of the insecticide, DDT.
Stuart Udall
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.
Highway beautification act
It tackle the issue of visual blight :the ugly billboards in junkyards that were located along the nations interstate highway system.
Land and water conservation act
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.
Solid waste disposal act
Propose to protect human health and the natural environment from waste disposal as well as to reduce the amount of waste generated through recycling.
National historic preservation act
It’s sought to preserve historical an archaeological sites in America.
Endangered species preservation act
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.
Motor vehicle air pollution control act
It establish air pollution standards for cars but it did not apply to exhaust emissions from trucks
National foundations in the arts and humanities
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.
Corporation for public broadcasting
It created to promote public broadcasting between 15 to 20% of the revenues of all public stations are federal funded.
