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This is literally a history question so stop rejecting it. Using documents 1 - 3, make three claims about the actions President Johnson and his administration undertook in order to foster economic growth. Be sure your claim explains how the action taken would foster economic growth. Support each claim with evidence from at least one document.

This is literally a history question so stop rejecting it. Using documents 1 - 3, make three claims about the actions President Johnson and his administration undertook in order to foster economic growth. Be sure your claim explains how the action taken would foster economic growth. Support each claim with evidence from at least one document.

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This is literally a history question so stop rejecting it.

Using documents 1 - 3, make three claims about the actions President Johnson and his administration undertook in order to foster economic growth. Be sure your claim explains how the action taken would foster economic growth. Support each claim with evidence from at least one document. 

**Document 1** The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning... I want to talk to you today about the places where we begin to build the Great Society—in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms. ...In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States... Our society will never be great until our cities are great. A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside. We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful. Today that beauty is in danger. The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution... Green fields and dense forests are disappearing... A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. Yet we are still far from that goal. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished five years of school. Nearly 54 million—more than one-quarter of all America—have not even finished high school. Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it... Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty... — Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, transcript of presidential speech at the University of Michigan about US domestic programs, "The Great Society" (excerpts) May 22, 1964 **Document 2** Johnson labeled his ambitious domestic agenda "The Great Society."... There were environmental protection laws, landmark land conservation measures, the profoundly influential Immigration Act, bills establishing a National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Highway Safety Act, the Public Broadcasting Act
Transcribed Image Text:**Document 1** The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning... I want to talk to you today about the places where we begin to build the Great Society—in our cities, in our countryside, and in our classrooms. ...In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States... Our society will never be great until our cities are great. A second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our countryside. We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the free, but America the beautiful. Today that beauty is in danger. The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution... Green fields and dense forests are disappearing... A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. Yet we are still far from that goal. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished five years of school. Nearly 54 million—more than one-quarter of all America—have not even finished high school. Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it... Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty... — Source: Lyndon B. Johnson, transcript of presidential speech at the University of Michigan about US domestic programs, "The Great Society" (excerpts) May 22, 1964 **Document 2** Johnson labeled his ambitious domestic agenda "The Great Society."... There were environmental protection laws, landmark land conservation measures, the profoundly influential Immigration Act, bills establishing a National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Highway Safety Act, the Public Broadcasting Act
**Great Society Legislation, 1964-1967** | **Legislation** | **Purpose** | |-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Economic Opportunity Act, 1964 | Created to combat causes of poverty such as illiteracy. Set up community action programs to give the poor a voice in implementing housing, health, and education policies. | | Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 1964 | Sent volunteers to help people in poor communities. | | Medicare, 1965 | Provided hospital and low-cost medical insurance for most Americans age 65 and older. | | Medicaid, 1965 | Provided low-cost health insurance for poor Americans of any age who could not afford private health insurance. | | Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 | Provided education aid to states based on the number of students from low-income homes. | | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Outlawed literacy tests and provided for federal supervision of elections in states where less than 50% of eligible voters could vote. | | The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 1965 | Established to oversee the nation's housing needs and to develop and rehabilitate urban communities. HUD also provided money for rent supplements and low-income housing.| | The Higher Education Act, 1965 | Provided scholarships and low-interest loans for college students. | | The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, 1965 | Offered grants to artists and scholars. | | Water Quality Act, 1965; Clean Water Restoration Act, 1966 | Brought about water and air quality standards and provided money for environmental research. | | Air Quality Act, 1967 | Set guidelines for pollution levels and increased the federal government's power to enforce clean-air standards. | *Source:* America: Pathways to the Present, Prentice Hall, 2005, p. 745
Transcribed Image Text:**Great Society Legislation, 1964-1967** | **Legislation** | **Purpose** | |-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Economic Opportunity Act, 1964 | Created to combat causes of poverty such as illiteracy. Set up community action programs to give the poor a voice in implementing housing, health, and education policies. | | Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 1964 | Sent volunteers to help people in poor communities. | | Medicare, 1965 | Provided hospital and low-cost medical insurance for most Americans age 65 and older. | | Medicaid, 1965 | Provided low-cost health insurance for poor Americans of any age who could not afford private health insurance. | | Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 | Provided education aid to states based on the number of students from low-income homes. | | Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Outlawed literacy tests and provided for federal supervision of elections in states where less than 50% of eligible voters could vote. | | The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 1965 | Established to oversee the nation's housing needs and to develop and rehabilitate urban communities. HUD also provided money for rent supplements and low-income housing.| | The Higher Education Act, 1965 | Provided scholarships and low-interest loans for college students. | | The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, 1965 | Offered grants to artists and scholars. | | Water Quality Act, 1965; Clean Water Restoration Act, 1966 | Brought about water and air quality standards and provided money for environmental research. | | Air Quality Act, 1967 | Set guidelines for pollution levels and increased the federal government's power to enforce clean-air standards. | *Source:* America: Pathways to the Present, Prentice Hall, 2005, p. 745
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