America: President Johnson’s ‘Great Society’

Question 1

What did he do to minimum hourly wage?

Answer 1

Increased it from $1.25 to $1.40

Question 2

What was Jobs Corps introduced to do?

Answer 2

Help high school leavers get jobs

Question 3

What was introduced to fund low-income housing?

Answer 3

A housing act

Question 4

What was the housing act?

Answer 4

Funded low-income housing

Question 5

What was the model cities act?

Answer 5

Cleared up inner-city slums

Question 6

What did the air and water quality act do?

Answer 6

Tightened controls over population

Question 7

What was improved for customer products?

Answer 7

Safety standards

Question 8

What was Medicare?

Answer 8

Created fund healthcare for the elderly and low income families

Question 9

Whose idea was Medicare?

Answer 9

John F Kennedy

Question 10

What did operation head start do?

Answer 10

Gave money to poor schools in cities

Question 11

What did the elementary and secondary education act provide?

Answer 11

Major funding for schools

Question 12

What was the VISTA programme?

Answer 12

A domestic version of the peace corps

Question 13

What was the criticism of the great society?

Answer 13

Opinions on the great society varied dramatically
Spent too much on reforms - by 1968 unemployment was rising
LBJ fully supported US involvement in the Vietnam war which was becoming unpopular and costly