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One of President Kennedy’s proposed pieces of legislation that President Johnson successfully passed through Congress was the |
Tax Reduction Act of 1964 |
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Some critics of the Great Society believed that anti-poverty programs benefited which group the most? |
African Americans |
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The image shows a restaurant that has closed its doors to African Americans. It reflects a reaction to what Great Society legislation? |
Civil Rights Act |
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A major legacy of President Johnson’s domestic policy is |
civil rights legislation |
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The poor in the 1960s were |
disproportionately African American and suffered greater rates of disease and malnutrition |
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Which of the following is a true statement about the Great Society? |
Vietnam was the main cause of its end. |
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President Johnson’s Great Society |
expanded New Deal legislation and created new social programs |
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President Johnson believed that to become a Great Society, the nation needed to first fix |
poverty and racial discrimination |
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One of the ways the Great Society is considered an improvement over the New Deal is that it |
addressed civil rights |
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The first Great Society program to address the "War on Poverty" was the |
Economic Opportunity Act |
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Besides creating jobs, what did President Johnson believe was the key to ending poverty? |
improving education |
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The trend shown in this table is a reflection of which Great Society legislative action? |
Tax Reduction Act, 1964 |
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The trend in this table reflects which of the following Great Society programs? |
Immigration Act |
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Great Society programs of the 1960s led to |
a decrease in the poverty rate |
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