The Great Society- legislation

What were LBJ’s main domestic policy goals? (3)

Invest in education and leisure

Invest in urban areas and community-building

Invest in green spaces

What was The Programme?

The 60 bills that LBJ aimed to pass in order to achieve the Great Society

When and what was the tax reduction act?

1964

Cut taxes by $10 billion

When and what was the Manpower development act?

1964

Expansion of 1962 legislation to provide the poor with job training

When and what was the economic opportunity act?

1964

Set up poverty programmes under the office of economic opportunity

When and what was the elementary and secondary education act?

1965

Provided direct federal funding for schools

When and what was the higher education act?

1965

provided college scholarships and loans

When and what was the medical care act?

1965

Established the medicare and medicaid free healthcare schemes for the elderly and disabled respectively

When and what was the Omnibus housing act?

1965

Rent aid and funds for cheap housing projects

When and what was the Appalachian regional development act?

1965

$1 billion for infrastructure development in the Appalachian region

When and what was the national endowment for the arts?

1965

Arts funds

When and what was the demonstration cities and metropolitan development act?

1966

Gave certain cities slum clearances, housing developments and transport upgrades

When and what was the urban mass transportation act?

1966

public transport funding for cities

When and what was the clean water restoration act?

1966

$3.5 billion allocated to tackle and prevent water pollution

When and what was the highways beautification act?

1966

Limited how many billboards could be placed along highways

When and what was the endangered species protection act?

1966

Protected endangered species native to the US

When and what was the air quality act?

1967

Limited sources of air pollution such as car exhausts

When and what was the wild and scenic rivers act?

1968

Protected certain parts of eight key US rivers