8.9 the Great Society

What program did Lyndon Johnson endorse?

the Great Society program where he would extend the New Deal program

War on poverty

Johnson responded to Harrington’s book the other america by creating the Office of Economic Opportunity which would provide many self-help programs for the poor, head start for preschoolers, job corps for vocational education, literacy programs, and legal services

food stamp act

allowed more impoverished people to buy food

National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities

• allowed more fundings for arts and creative and scholarly projects

Medicare

help insurance for everyone 65 and older

medicaid

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

elementary and secondary education act

funds to poor schools and funds for special education programs

Immjigration Act

Abolished discriminatory quotas based on national origins

Beautify America

• Lydon’s wife’s program of removing billboards from highways

Immigration Act of 1965

• ended ethnic quota acts of the 1920s foavring europeans and thereby opened the United States to immigrants from all parts of the world

Changes in immigration

• Many undocumented immigrants came in to america

• more immigrants from latin america, asia…less from europe and canada bc many people were trying to escape the communism