Johnson's great society

Question 1

How many of Johnson’s proposed acts were passed?

Answer 1

58%

Question 2

What new department did he create for housing?

Answer 2

department of housing and development 1965 that organised programmes

Question 3

What was the Demonstration cities act supposed to do?

Answer 3

1966 all levels of GOV could work on housing, transport and slum clearance

urban redevelopment

Question 4

What was the Demonstration cities act 1966

Answer 4

6 cities e.g NY and LA were supposed to be turned into model cities

only had $1.2 billion spending supposed to have $2.4 billion, provided grants that would pay up to 80% of the cost of developing these programmes

Senator Robert Kennedy said it was ‘drop in the bucket’ as it was sufficient enough to deal with the ‘central problems of American life’

Question 5

What did NY times say about the demonstrations cities?

Answer 5

That NY alone would need $6 billion

Question 6

What was the 1965 omnibus housing act?

Answer 6

1- financed rent supplements

2- built $8 billion worth of low income housing in ghettos
persuasion meant builders built reasonably priced

Question 7

What was the 1968 fair housing act?

Answer 7

prohibited discrimination in housing based on race, religion and sex without costing taxpayers money (hard to enforce)

did increase funding (passed death of MLK)

Detroit ghetto riots show that taxpayers didn’t want to pay for it

Question 8

How many Americans never finished high school in 1964?

Answer 8

54 million

Question 9

In 1964 how many students with proven ability could not afford college?

Answer 9

100,000

Question 10

How did Johnson persuade congress to improve expenditure?

Answer 10

said they spent ‘7 times more on a youth that has gone bad’ then one who stayed in school

Question 11

How much did congress increase federal expenditure to 1964?

Answer 11

doubled to $8 billion

Question 12

What did the elementary and secondary school act do?

Answer 12

1965

supposed to be anti-poverty but locals made sure it wasn’t
1985 1/2 estimated to have gone to children on the poverty line. due to him not paying attention to the legislation

6.7 million poor children were helped and encouraged states to invest in education

Question 13

What did the higher education act 1965 do?

Answer 13

11 million poor students benefited

By 1970 25% of college students had received aid

Helped poorly funded black colleges and increased number of students

Question 14

What did the 1964 civil rights act do?

Answer 14

legally enforced segregation in south

passed to honor Kennedy

Question 15

What did the 1965 voting rights act do?

Answer 15

stopped literacy tests and stopped southern white registrars with federal registrars

Question 16

What did Johnson use federal power to do 1965?

Answer 16

ay institution using fedral funding to employ more non whites

(non affirmative action)

Question 17

When and what did Johnson declare about poverty?

Answer 17

1965 ‘unconditional war on poverty’

Question 18

What did the economic opportunity act do?

Answer 18

1964 and t created the office of economic opportunity

44 states had anti-poverty programmed

4 million received aid with dependent child benefit

90,000 adults enrolled in basic education

Question 19

What was VISTA?

Answer 19

volunteer in service to america

helped poor children, migrant workers and native american

Question 20

What was head start?

Answer 20

helped poor pre-schoolers to catch up

1 million enrolled

Question 21

What did liberals say about Johnsons poverty legislation?

Answer 21

it was not enough and underfunded

(taxpayers would not pay more and congress would not have agreed?

Question 22

What made critics acuse of being excessive?

Answer 22

federal expenditure on the poor rose from $13 billion to 20

Question 23

What fraction of non-whites still lived below the poverty line?

Answer 23

1/3

made unrealistic promises

Question 24

What was the 1965 social security act?

Answer 24

medicare (on age, fed gov) and medicaid (on income, states)

Question 25

How may people enrolled in medicare 1966?

Answer 25

19 million

Question 26

How much did money spent on healthcare increase by?

Answer 26

1.3 billion to $2

1965 5% of GDP by 1990 15%

Question 27

What fraction of the population did social security act help?

Answer 27

1/5