"The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice... It is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom." — President Lyndon B. Johnson, University of Michigan, May 22, 1964
Events in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 most directly led to which legislation extending the Great Society's vision?
- A
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment, which abolished the poll tax in federal elections
- B
The Fair Labor Standards Act, which established minimum wage
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized federal oversight of elections in covered jurisdictions
- D
The Wagner Act, which protected union organizing
Explanation
The violent suppression of marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge prompted Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act, signed in August 1965. The FLSA and Wagner Act are New Deal laws; the Twenty-Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1964 before Selma.