Great Society

Question 1

Tax Reduction Act

Answer 1

cut corporate and individual taxes to stimulate growth

Question 2

Economic Opportunity Act

Answer 2

Created Job Corps, Vista, Project Head Start and other programs to fht the war on poverty

Question 3

Medicare Act

Answer 3

Established medicare and medicaid programs

Question 4

Appalachian Regional Development Act

Answer 4

argeted aid for ighways, health centers, and resource development on that economically depreseed area

Question 5

Omnibus Housing Act

Answer 5

provided money for low income housing

Question 6

Demonstration cities and metropolitan area redevelopment act

Answer 6

funded slum rebuilding, mass transit, an dother improvements for selected model cities

Question 7

Department of housing and urban development

Answer 7

was formed to administer federal housing programs

Question 8

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Answer 8

directed money to schools for textbooks, library materials, and special education s

Question 9

Higher Education Act

Answer 9

funded scholorships and low interest loans for college students

Question 10

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities

Answer 10

was created to financially assist painters, musicians, actors m and other artists

Question 11

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Answer 11

was formed to fund educationTV and radio broadcasting

Question 12

Vicil Rights Act

Answer 12

outlawd discrimination in public acconodations, housing, and jobs, increased federal power to prosecute civil rights abusers

Question 13

Voting Rights Act

Answer 13

ended the practice of requiring voters to pass literacy tests and permitted the federal government to monitor voter registeration

Question 14

Twenty Gourth Amendent

Answer 14

abolished th epoll tax in federal election s

Question 15

Immigration Act

Answer 15

Ended national origions quotas estaboised in 1924

Question 16

Wilderness Preservation Act

Answer 16

set aside over 9 million acrs for national forest lands

Question 17

Clean Air Act Amendment

Answer 17

directed the federal government to establish emission standards for the new motor vehivles

Question 18

Water Quality Act

Answer 18

required states to clean up their rivers

Question 19

Air quality Act

Answer 19

set federal air pollution guide lines and extended federal enforcement power

Question 20

Truth inPackaging Act

Answer 20

set standards for labeling consumer products

Question 21

Highway Safety Act

Answer 21

required states to set up highway safety programs

Question 22

National Traggic and motor Vehicle Safety Act

Answer 22

set federal safety standards for the auto and tire industries

Question 23

Department of Transporation

Answer 23

Was created to deal with national air, rail and highway transport