LBJ’s Great Society AP US History

Election of 1964 -”Zenith” of Liberalism? -Use of Media

2018 HHS Poverty Guidelines Persons in Family 48 States/DC 1 $12,140 2 $16,460 3 $20,780 4 $25,100 5 $29,420 6 $33,740 7 $38,060 8 $42,380 Each Additional Person $4,320

The Great Society (11:15)

Civil Rights Legislation Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Immigration & Naturalization Act of 1965 Ends previous quota system favoring N and W Europe Opens up more opportunities for people from Latin America and Asia Gave preference to family reunification and workers with special skills

Health Care (stats from KFF) Medicare: health care for the elderly (1965) Part A – Hospital Care Part B – Medical Insurance Part C (1997) – Medicare Advantage (private plans) Part D (2006) – Drug Coverage Financed by 2.9% tax on income 55.5 million people (2015) 15% of federal budget; $540 billion (2015) Medicaid: health care for the poor (1965) Joint federal/state program Anyone within 133% of the poverty line qualifies for Medicaid (Obamacare Expansion) 58.5 million people (12/2016) 9% of federal budget $532 billion in spending including state/local funds (2015)

Poverty (stats from USDA or KFF) Food Stamps (now SNAP) – aid to people in need of food (1964) Eligibility in NY (2017) – less than $2665 in gross income for a family of four 41.6 million people (November 2017) $68 Billion (2017) $126 a person per month

Education Head Start – set up preschool programs Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – aid to schools particularly in poor areas Higher Education Act – set up grants and loans for students to attend college

Other Programs Department of Transportation (DOT) Ralph Nader –Unsafe at Any Speed Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Environmental Laws Rachel Carson – Silent Spring (2) Arts and Culture

Outcomes Poverty Rates Welfare Expenditures Politics Current Events Conservative Reaction? Video Current Events

SAQ Briefly explain one similarity between the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. Briefly explain one difference between the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. Briefly explain the reason for either A or B.

The Great Society Civil Rights: CRA of 1964, VRA of 1965, Immigration Act of 1965 Health Care: Medicare, Medicaid Poverty: Food Stamps Education: Head Start, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Higher Education Act Department of Transportation Ralph Nader – Unsafe at Any Speed Department of Housing and Urban Development Environment: Water Quality Act, Clean Air Act Rachel Carson – Silent Spring Culture: PBS, NPR, National Endowment for the Arts Conservative Reaction Modern Politics

Ralph Nader –Unsafe at Any Speed

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring

Rachel Carson – Silent Spring …There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund [dying]; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.… The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers [fishermen] no longer visited them, for all the fish had died. In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder [DDT] still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.…