Kennedy's New Frontier

Question 1

when was JFK president?

Answer 1

1961 - 1963

Question 2

what issues in social welfare did Kennedy ask for legislation in?

Answer 2

• rise in min wage
• a new department of urban affairs
• federal financial aid to education
• health insurance for the elderly
• tax cuts to stimulate the economy

Question 3

what measures did he use to help the poor?

Answer 3

social security ammendments act 1961

min wage act 1961

food and agriculture act 1962

food stamp

omnibus housing act 1961

Question 4

what was the social security ammendmnets act?

Answer 4

1961 - expanded benefits for the elderly and people with disabilities

Question 5

what was the min wage act?

Answer 5

1961 - raised it from $0.25 to $1.25

Question 6

what were the problems with the min wage act?

Answer 6

1/2 of the populations poorest was not covered.

Question 7

what was the food and agriculture act?

Answer 7

1962 - that gave subsidies to farmers in poor rural areas

Question 8

what was the food stamp?

Answer 8

fed 240,000 people which cost $22 million annually.

Question 9

what measures were used to aid unemployed or unskilled workers?

Answer 9

• the area redevelopment act 1961

- manpower and training act 1962

Question 10

what was the area redevelopment act?

Answer 10

1961 - extended employment opportunities to struggling states such as West Virginia - gave $394 million

Question 11

what was the Manpower and training act?

Answer 11

1962 - to train workers using programmes which were set up to help unskilled workers.

Question 12

what was the problem with the Area redevelopment act?

Answer 12

1961 - five million across America were still unemployed and congress refused to reauthorise it in 1963, which mean’t there was no more funding

Question 13

what legislative falliures did kennedy suffer from?

Answer 13

• federal aid to elementry schools was rejected in 1961
• senior citezens health care was rejected in 1963
• department of urban affairs wasn’t created
• civil rights bill stuck in congress at time of death
• tax cuts weren’t implemented

Question 14

when was the peace corps established?

Answer 14

1961

Question 15

what was the aim of the peace corps?

Answer 15

to help improve impoverished / developing countries

- as well as reducing chance of war

Question 16

how did Kennedy describe the peace corps?

Answer 16

an organisation that allowed Americans to fulfil their responsibilities to “world development” and “world peace”

Question 17

how many volunteered for the peace corps?

Answer 17

thousands

Question 18

how many countries received aid from the peace corps in 1961-63?

Answer 18

44 developing countries

Question 19

why were the us beginning to become humiliated by the soviets?

Answer 19

October 1957 the soviets sent a satellite to space “sputnik”
November 1957 the US attempted to send a satellite into space and it failed.

Question 20

`when did Russian soviet orbit the earth?

Answer 20

April 1961 Gagarin

Question 21

what was the JFK suggestion to end us humiliations?

Answer 21

1961 he suggested to congress that they were going to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

Question 22

how much money was spent of Kennedy’s space programme ?

Answer 22

$40 billion

Question 23

how many people favoured the mood project in 1965?

Answer 23

58% of population

Question 24

when did the first man land on the mood?

Answer 24

1969 Neil Armstrong - american

Question 25

what was the omnibus housing act ?

Answer 25

1961 - congress extended $5 billion for the extension of existing program’s such as urban renewal and public housing.
- also authorised low interest rate loans for struggling middle-income families.

Question 26

why would most historians consider Kennedy’s presidency unimpressive?

Answer 26

• he failed to gain congressional support for his major legislations
• no major new domestic policy was passed during his presidency, much of what congress did pass was not new but just expanded on what was previously there.

Question 27

what were the reasons for JFK’s legislative defeats?

Answer 27

• congress was dominated by republicans and southern democrats who opposed government expenditure in health and education
• southerners rejected assisting black ghetto’s

Question 28

what did the Peace corps allow people to do ?

Answer 28

• ## sent thousands of students to give technical aid such as building schools and houses

Question 29

what did JFK say was NOT the aim of the peace Corps?

Answer 29

• he said it was not a means of propaganda to prevent conflict
• however in private he did hope that it would show America’s values to be superior to soviet values.

Question 30

what did critics of the peace corps say?

Answer 30

• they reffered to it as the “kiddie corps”

- alot of kids bouncing around the world in Bermuda shorts

Question 31

how many people approved the peace corps?

Answer 31

71%