President Johnson: Domestic Policy

Question 1

1963 key moments/legislation for Civil rights

Answer 1

-4 black girls killed in bombing, Birmingham
-Birmingham campaign
-March on Washington

Question 2

1964 key moments/legislation for Civil Rights

Answer 2

-Civil Rights act

Question 3

1965 key moments/ legislation for Civil Rights

Answer 3

-Malcom X assassinated
-Voting rights act
-Selma
-Watts riots

Question 4

1966 key moments/legislation for Civil Rights

Answer 4

-Black panthers formed
-meredith march
-Beginning of black power movement

Question 5

1967 key moments/legislation for Civil Rights

Answer 5

-ghetto riots
-fair housing act
-MLK assassinated

Question 6

What did the 1964 Civil Rights act do?

Answer 6

-ended de jure segregation
-prohibited public discrimination
-furthered desegregation of schools
-established equal employment commission

Question 7

Cons of civil rights act:

Answer 7

-black americans felt it was lacking
-did little to facilitate black voting righta

Question 8

What was the 1965 voting rights act?

Answer 8

-dissalowed literacy tests etc
-replaced southern white registrars with federal registrars

Question 9

Effects of the voting rights act:

Answer 9

-by 1980, proportion of black americans was only 7% less than proportion of white

Question 10

Positives of Johnsons great society on Civil Rights:

Answer 10

-black unemployment down 34%
-black people below the poverty line down 25%

Question 11

Negatives of great society on Civil Rights:

Answer 11

-black americans continued to live in poor housing, poor schools and poor job opportunities

Question 12

Why was Johnsons civil rights legislation limited?

Answer 12

-decreased sympathy in congress
-state/local authorities hesitant to cooperate
-white hostility (70% white voters opposed black neighbours)

Question 13

What was causing the Urban Riots?

Answer 13

-Assassinations of M.X and MLK
-CR movement not effecting north/midwest
-only 32% ghetto students graduated
-in ghettos, 50-70% of youth unemployed (no opportunities)
-great socitey not lived up to

Question 14

Give three examples of urban riots:

Answer 14

-Detroit 1967: 40 dead, 5000 arrested, federal troops involved
-Watts 1965: 35 dead, 3500 arrested, $40 mln damage
-Newark 1967: Police brutality caused, 26 dead, most inner city burned

Question 15

What was the Meredith march (1966)?

Answer 15

-started to encourage black voters in south
-220 mile march
-meredith shot almost immediately, so continued by SCLC and SNCC
-divisions between the two- SNCC radicalised more

Question 16

Economic positives in great society

Answer 16

-after tax wages up 35%
-corporate earnings up 65%

Question 17

Negatives in great society economy

Answer 17

-inflation of 4.5% in consumer prices
-1967, 60% of usa saw cost of living as No1 problem

Question 18

Examples of education reform in great society

Answer 18

-head start programme : served 32 mln vulnerable, helped going into education
-doubled federal expenditure on educ to $8 bln
-elementary and secondary educ act
-higher educ act : 13 mln benefitted, access to college increased 25% 1970