APUSH AMSCO Unit 8.9

explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the role of the federal government over time & explain the contributions and changes in immigration patterns over time

Lyndon Johnson

a skilled politician who had started his career as a Roosevelt Democrat during the Great Depression

Great Society

Johnson’s program to expand the social reforms of the New Deal

Michael Harrington’s The Other America

helped focus national attention on the 40 million Americans still living in poverty

war on poverty

Johnson established an “unconditional war on poverty”

Barry Goldwater

the Republican nominee in 1964 who advocated for the ending of the welfare state

Medicare

gave health insurance to all people 65 and older

Medicaid

gave funds to states to pay for medical care for the poor and disabled

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

gave federal funds to poor school districts and funds for special education groups

Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Johnson established these two new cabinet departments

Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed

led to automobile industry regulations that would save hundreds of lives in the following years

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

caused clean air and water laws

Beautify America

Lady Bird Johnson helped improve the environment; led to the Highway Beautification Act that removed billboards from federal highways

Immigration Act of 1965

ended the ethnic quotas and thereby opened the US to immigrants from all parts of the world

Gideon v. Wainright

ruled that if a person cannot afford their own attorney, the state must provide one

Griswold v. Conneticut

ruled that laws that forbade the use of birth control were unconstitutional

Engel v. Vitale

deemed school prayer unconstitutional (separation of church and state)

Baker v. Carr

decided states must redraw their legislative districts so they more accurately upheld voting rights