The Great Society

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Major Great Society Programs (1964-1966) Program Purpose Medicare (1965) Health insurance for over-65 Medicaid (1965) Health care for low-income ESEA (1965) Federal aid to K-12 schools Higher Ed Act (1965) College loans, Pell grants Head Start (1965) Preschool for low-income kids Immigration Act 1965 Ended national-origin quotas VRA / CRA (1964-65) Civil rights enforcement Johnson's "War on Poverty" agenda

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs are best understood as a continuation of which earlier reform tradition?

  • A

    The New Deal's expansion of federal social welfare commitments

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  • B

    Theodore Roosevelt's trust-busting and conservation agenda

  • C

    The laissez-faire economics of the Coolidge years

  • D

    The states' rights nullification of the antebellum era

Explanation

The Great Society dramatically expanded New Deal-era federal commitments, adding health care (Medicare/Medicaid), federal education funding, and an explicit "War on Poverty," constituting the most ambitious liberal program since FDR.

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