concept check topic 4

What were Johnsons goals for the great society?

• uplift racially and economically disenfranchised americans

• raise the american standard of life

• initiate a wide-scale fight against poverty

what progrmas did the great society include?

• First federal food stamp program

• Medicare, medicaid

• Invested in public education

• Invested in arts and letters

civil rights act of 1964

prohibits discrimination based on race sex origin

voting rights act of 1965

outlawed discriminatory voting practices

what did community action programs do?

gave impoverished americans a hand in decisionmaking for their own programs to help themselves

what effects did the riots have?

led to white flight-white people moved into suburban enclaves

What were some criticisms of the Great Society?

• many felt the programs would lead to too much dependence on federal aid

• johnson could not afford to fund impovershed communities and the war in Vietnam