Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs are best understood as a continuation of which earlier reform tradition?
- Acheck_circle
The New Deal's expansion of federal social welfare commitments
- 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.