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Using documents 1-3, make three claims about the problems President Johnson hoped to solve through the Great Society.  Support each claim with evidence from at least one document.

Using documents 1-3, make three claims about the problems President Johnson hoped to solve through the Great Society.  Support each claim with evidence from at least one document.

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 Using documents 1-3, make three claims about the problems President Johnson hoped to solve through the Great Society.  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 three 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. 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, and a bill to provide consumers with some protection against shoddy goods and dangerous products. To address issues of inequality in education, vast amounts of money were poured into colleges to fund certain students and projects and into federal aid for elementary and secondary education, especially to provide remedial services for poorer districts To deal with escalating problems in urban areas, Johnson won passage of a bill establishing a Department of Housing and Urban Development.the department would coordinate vastly expanded slum clearance, public housing programs, and economic redevelopment within inner cities. LBJ's call on the nation to wage a war on poverty arose from the ongoing concern that America had not done enough to provide socio-economic opportunities for the underclass..during the Kennedy years, the actual number of families in poverty had risen.the number of children on welfare, which had increased from 1.6 million in 1950 to 2.4 million in 1960, was still going up. Part of the problem involved racial disparities: the unemployment rate among black youth approached 25 percent-less at that time than the rate for white youths-though it had been only 8 percent twenty years before. ..War on Poverty initiatives.These include the Head Start program of early education for poor children; the Legal Services Corporation, providing legal aid to poor families; and various health care programs run out of neighborhood clinics and hospitals. Overall government funding devoted to the poor increased greatly. Between 1965 and 1968, expenditures targeted at the poor doubled, from $6 billion to $12 billion, and then doubled again to $24,5 billion by 1974. Source: The Miler Center at the University of Virginia, description of President Lyndon Johnson's economic policies and actions, "Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic Affairs" (excerpts) American President: A Reference Resource, no date
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 three 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. 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, and a bill to provide consumers with some protection against shoddy goods and dangerous products. To address issues of inequality in education, vast amounts of money were poured into colleges to fund certain students and projects and into federal aid for elementary and secondary education, especially to provide remedial services for poorer districts To deal with escalating problems in urban areas, Johnson won passage of a bill establishing a Department of Housing and Urban Development.the department would coordinate vastly expanded slum clearance, public housing programs, and economic redevelopment within inner cities. LBJ's call on the nation to wage a war on poverty arose from the ongoing concern that America had not done enough to provide socio-economic opportunities for the underclass..during the Kennedy years, the actual number of families in poverty had risen.the number of children on welfare, which had increased from 1.6 million in 1950 to 2.4 million in 1960, was still going up. Part of the problem involved racial disparities: the unemployment rate among black youth approached 25 percent-less at that time than the rate for white youths-though it had been only 8 percent twenty years before. ..War on Poverty initiatives.These include the Head Start program of early education for poor children; the Legal Services Corporation, providing legal aid to poor families; and various health care programs run out of neighborhood clinics and hospitals. Overall government funding devoted to the poor increased greatly. Between 1965 and 1968, expenditures targeted at the poor doubled, from $6 billion to $12 billion, and then doubled again to $24,5 billion by 1974. Source: The Miler Center at the University of Virginia, description of President Lyndon Johnson's economic policies and actions, "Lyndon B. Johnson: Domestic Affairs" (excerpts) American President: A Reference Resource, no date
Document 3 Great Society Legislation, 1964-1967 Legislation Purpose Economic Opportunity Created to combat causes of poverty such as iliteracy. Set up Act, 1964 community action programs to give the poor a voice in implementing housing, health, and education policies. Volunteers in Service to Sent volunteers to help people in poor communities. America (VISTA), 1964 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 Provided education aid to states based on the number of students from Secondary Education Act low-income homes. of 1965 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), 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. 1965 The Higher Education Act, 1965 Provided scholarships and low-interest loans for college students. The National Endowment Offered grants to artists and scholars. for the Arts and Humanities, 1965 Water Quality Act, 1965; Brought about water and air quality standards and provided money for Clean Water Restoration environmental research. Act, 1966 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:Document 3 Great Society Legislation, 1964-1967 Legislation Purpose Economic Opportunity Created to combat causes of poverty such as iliteracy. Set up Act, 1964 community action programs to give the poor a voice in implementing housing, health, and education policies. Volunteers in Service to Sent volunteers to help people in poor communities. America (VISTA), 1964 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 Provided education aid to states based on the number of students from Secondary Education Act low-income homes. of 1965 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), 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. 1965 The Higher Education Act, 1965 Provided scholarships and low-interest loans for college students. The National Endowment Offered grants to artists and scholars. for the Arts and Humanities, 1965 Water Quality Act, 1965; Brought about water and air quality standards and provided money for Clean Water Restoration environmental research. Act, 1966 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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