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(JFK) LBJ Presidency Study Guide Day 2

1. LBJ Becomes President. Hours after JFK’s assassination__ , vice-president_ Lyndon Johnson of texas__ was sworn in as president.

2. The biggest issues facing LBJ as President were:

   1. The civil rights__________ movement

   2. The growing ___poverty____________ in America

   3. The conflict in Vietnam_______________.

3. President Lyndon Johnson. Major Events :

   1. Civil Right Movement
      1. Civil rights Act,1964 2. Voting rights Act,1965

   2. War on Poverty = Great Society 1.Anti-poverty Act,1964 2.Education reform

   3. Cold War = US Involvement in Vietnam

4. July of 1964__, LBJ pushed the civil rights act_ through Congress. The act prohibited discrimination__ based on race__, color, religion or national origin___ and granted the federal government new powers to___enforce_____________ the law.

5. He also signed in to law the voting_ Rights Act of 1965. Which prohibited ___literacy___ test or other discriminatory practices for voting.

6. The Economic Opportunity Act created the ____job________ Corps, ___vista__ (Volunteers in Service to America), Project ___head_______ Start for under privileged preschooler, and the Community action___ Program (CAP), which encouraged the po9or to participate in public works programs.

7. Once Johnson was elected in 1964, he began working on his plan for domestic________ programs to help the United States. He called his program the _____great________ Society. The key programs of the Great Society were ____Medicare____________, Medicaid________, Head Start__________ and HUD.

8. *In 1964, the ____republicans___ nominated conservative senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona to oppose Democrat Lyndon Johnson. Goldwater alienat4ed voters by suggesting the use of ___nuclear_____________ weapons in ___Cuba___ and North Vietnam.

9. Education. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act which provided $1__ billion dollars to help public schools buy textbooks____ and library__ materials. This Act represented the first major federal_____ aid package for education________ ever.

10. Healthcare. LBJ “enhanced” social security by establishing Medicare________ and Medicaid___________.

11. Medicare provided ___hospital_____________ insurance and low-cost medical care to the ____elderly_________.

12. Medicaid provided ___health___________ benefits to the ___poor___________.

13. Housing. LBJ and Congress appropriated money to build ___240,000_______ units of low rent public____ housing. LBJ established the Department of Housing and Urban Development (__HUD___).

14. Immigration Reform. The new Immigration Act of 1965 opened the door for many non-European immigrants to settle____ in the U.S.

15. The Environment. LBJ actively sought to improve the environment by asking Congress to pass
    The ___water_______ Quality Act of 1965. It required states to clean up their ___river______ and

    lakes. LBJ also ordered the government to clean up corporate__ polluters of the environment.