Goal 11 Part 4

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Goal 11 Part 4

• Lyndon B. Johnsons
• GREAT SOCIETY

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Lyndon B. Johnson

• Sworn in as President after
• JFKs assassination (1963)
• Goal for America The Great Society
• (poverty, attack on racial injustices, economy,
  education, environment, consumer protection,
  housing, healthcare, consumer protection rights
  of the accused)
• VERY successful later elected in 1968
• WAR ON POVERTY it worked!

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Great Society programs / laws

• Tax Cut Bill (Tax Reduction Act)(1964) 10
  billion cut spurred economic growth and cut
  deficit spending from 6 to 4 billion
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Prohibited discrimination based on race,
  religion, gender gave the power to the
  government to enforce it!
• (loss of federal funding if proven guilty)
• Why do we need this when we have Brown??

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Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) 1964 (Great
Society Program)

• 1 billion to the YOUTH of America
• Created the following
• Job Corps youth training program jobs
• VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
• Project Headstart underprivileged preschoolers
• Community Action Program encourage poor people
  to participate on public work projects

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Great Society Attacks DISCRIMINATION in America

• 24th Amendment no more poll tax
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
• No more literacy test
• Remember poll tax and literacy tests were ways
  for the South to limit cultures from receiving
  rights

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Education and Healthcare

• Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1
  billion to purchase textbooks and library
  materials
• HEALTHCARE (GREAT SOCIETY)
• Medicare - Provides insurance for
• Americans over 65 years old
• Medicaid extends health insurance for welfare
  recipients

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Immigration Environment (GREAT SOCIETY)

• Immigration Act (1965)
• -ended immigration based on quotas (no more
  quotas)
• - opened Southern and Eastern Europe to
  immigrate into America
• Dissolved the Emergency Quota Act from the 1920s
• Why did we limit years ago???
• Environment
• Rachel Carson Silent Spring exposed the
  hidden dangers of pesticides on the environment
  
• (chemicals getting into the rivers and lakes
• of America) leads to the Water Quality Act
• states given money to clean up rivers and lakes

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Consumer Protection Warren Court

• Ralph Nader Unsafe at Any Speed
• Criticized the auto industry for ignoring risks
  or safety concerns
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• WARREN COURT (Chief Justice Earl Warren)
• LIBERALISM took over the court system
  throughout the 50s-60s Great Society
• GAVE MORE RIGHTS TO THE ACCUSED
  
• Brown V. Board of Education (1954)
• Segregation unconstitutional
• (OVERTURNED Plessy v. Ferguson)

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RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED(GREAT SOCIETY/ WARREN
COURT)

• Mapp v. Ohio evidence seized illegally cannot
  be used to incriminate the accused
• Gideon v. Wainwright a court-ordered lawyer
  will be appointed to you if you cannot afford it
  (right to counsel during court process)
• Escobedo v. Illinois the accused have the right
  to counsel DURING police questioning
• Miranda v. Arizona accused MUST be read their
  rights BEFORE questioning
• The ACCUSED are receiving MORE RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!