Johnson's Great Society

Question 1

what five things did johnson’s great society target?

Answer 1

• civil rights
• war on poverty
• medicare / medicaid
• housing and urban problems
• education

Question 2

what did johnson pass in order to commerate the assination of JFK ?

Answer 2

1964 civil rights act

Question 3

when and what was the open housing act?

Answer 3

1968 - and was meant to have intergrated housing, this was continuously rejected by congress and it was also not very popular with the people as intergrated housing meant the property value would fall.

Question 4

what act was passed in memory of MLK?

Answer 4

the Fair housing act 1968 - which prohibited discrimination in the sale / rental of housing based on race.

Question 5

what was the executive orders act?

Answer 5

1965 - required any insitution recieving federal assistance to hire more non-whites

Question 6

what did Johnson declare regarding economic deprivation in 1964?

Answer 6

“an unconditional war on poverty”

Question 7

what was the EOA ?

Answer 7

Equal opportunities act passed in 1964 and established an Office of Economic opportunity (OEO) in order to co-ordinate the “war on poverty”

Question 8

what progress had the EOA made by February 1965?

Answer 8

• 44 states had anti-poverty programmes
• 53 job corps centres providing job training were recieving thousands of applications each day
• 25,000 families on benefits were recieving work training
• 35,000 adults were learning to read and write

Question 9

why was the war on poverty criticised ?

Answer 9

• some felt that the level of federal expenditure on the poor was excessive
• they pointed out that it cost more to take a ghetto youth into a job corps than it did to send them to harvard
• in contrast some liberals felt that the war on poverty was underfunded
• Johnson failed to eradicate poverty

Question 10

what was the problem with education in America ?

Answer 10

• 54 million never finished high school

- schools were over crowded

Question 11

what did Johnson manage to pursued congress to do ?

Answer 11

double expenditure on education to $8 billion

Question 12

what was the ESEA

Answer 12

1965 - elementary and secondary education act = 6.7 million poor children benefited

Question 13

what was the HEA ?

Answer 13

higher education act 1965 - 11 million, benefited 25% of college students

Question 14

what was positives came out of Johnson’s education

Answer 14

• the % of people with high school diplomacy’s went up
• shortage of good teachers was no longer an issue
• millions of kids benefited

Question 15

what was the housing and urban development ?

Answer 15

1965 - coordinated various programmes to combat housing issues

Question 16

what was the demonstration cities act?

Answer 16

1965 - $1.2 billion to reconstruct cities such as Chicago

Question 17

what problems did Johnson face regarding solving ghetto problems?

Answer 17

• ghetto’s remained in dire condition
• 1968 johnson wanted to stay committed to desegregating housing but recieved no more funding from congress.
• tax payers also didnt want to fund it

Question 18

what was done about healthcare?

Answer 18

Medicare - provided free healthcare for the elderly and those with disabilities

Question 19

what was the 1968 social security act?

Answer 19

established a medicare and medicade.