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JFK’s Great Society
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Primary Goals
- Use federal government to enhance social welfare
- Use education and job training to help disadvantaged people overcome cycle of poverty limiting their opportunities
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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- Ended segregation in public places
- Banned employment discrimination based on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origins
- First proposed by JFK, signed by LBJ
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Voting Rights Act of 1964
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- Signed by LBJ
- Aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented AAs from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment
- Banned the use of literacy tests
- Provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50% of the nonwhite population had not registered to vote
- Authorized US AG to investigate use of poll taxes in state and local elections
- Gave AA voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and vastly improved voter turnout
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Medicare (1965)
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- Health insurance program for elderly Americans
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Medicaid (1965)
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- State and federally funded program that offers health coverage to certain low-income people
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Montgomery Bus Boycot (1955-1956)
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- 1955, Rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat to a White passenger
- Helped galvanize the bus boycott led by Dr. King
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Sit-ins Greensboro, NC (1960)
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- Students staged the first sit-ins in Greensboro
- Protested segregation in public facilities
- Example of nonviolent civil disobedience
MTEL History
flashcards
Decks in class (35)
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1) Political, economic, and cultural features of Native American societies19
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2) European Exploration, Immigration, and Settlement of N. America18
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3) Regional Divisions of England's N. American Colonies16
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4) Political and Economic Relations between Colonies & Europe8
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5) Ethnic and religious diversity of American Colonists & Intellectual Heritage of Anglo-American Colonies6
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6) Growing Social and Political Divergence of the Colonies from England3
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7) Events, Interests, Issues Behind the American Revolution19
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8) Strengths and Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation5
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9) Debate over U.S. Constitution7
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10) Major Political and Economic Developments of the Early Republic16
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11) Rise of Popular Politics during Jacksonian Era5
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12) Origins and Accomplishments of Antebellum Reform Movements8
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13) Key Events and Issues Related to Westward Migration9
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14) Differences between the northern and southern economic systems and ways of life and Sectional Conflict7
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15) Issues and Events Leading to the Secession Crisis8
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16) • Significant leaders, strategies, battles, and turning points of the Civil War19
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17) Presidential and congressional Reconstruction, its accomplishments and failures11
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18) Continued Westward Expansion (1877 to 1920)4
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19) Causes and Consequences of Industrialization16
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20) Business and Labor in an Era of Industrial Expansion15
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21) Immigration, Internal Migration, Urbanization11
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22) Populism and the Crises of American Agriculture3
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23) Progressive Movement24
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24) The Movement for African American Civil Rights6
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25) Major Developments in the Arts and Literature (1877 to 1920)7
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26) Key events and issues related to U.S. expansionism (1898 to present)8
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27) Causes and consequences of U.S. intervention in World War I13
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28) Major cultural, social, and economic developments of the 1920s16
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29) Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression12
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30) Causes, key events, and consequences of U.S. participation in World War II13
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Cold War19
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Fifties7
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Sixties7
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1960s - present5
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World History10
