1. Chapter 20: The New Frontier and Great Society Section 3: The Great Society

2. California Academic Standards: 11.10.6
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
.6 Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.

3. Objectives:
Following lecture and reading of this section, students will be able to:
Describe Johnson’s path to the White House
Explain Johnson’s domestic agenda
Summarize the goals of Johnson’s Great Society
Identify the reforms of the Warren Court
Evaluate the impact of Great Society programs

4. How did LBJ come to power?
LBJ is now the President and devises a plan called the great society
Johnson’s ambitions for the great society were two fold:
(1) he wanted programs that could turn people’s lives around and
(2) he wanted those people to go on and make a difference in the lives of others
How did LBJ come to power?
Johnson imitates FDR’s leadership style, after FDR took LBJ under his wing when

5. What was Johnson’s domestic agenda?
he first served in congress in 1937
Johnson proves himself to be a master of party politics as he rose through the ranks of the political ladder
Johnson’s legislative skill and Southern Protestant background win him a slot on the Kennedy ticket
JFK realized the differences between himself and LBJ could help him carry southern states
What was Johnson’s domestic agenda?

6. Johnson pushes through Kennedy’s civil rights and tax-cut bills resulting in:
The Civil Rights Act of prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender
Tax cuts resulted in the lowering of the national debt by $2 billion because people spent more money and thus companies had more money to be taxed
Johnson presses ahead with his own agenda- a war on poverty

7. What were the goals of Johnson’s Great Society?
He introduced and passed the Economic Opportunity Act which gave money for youth programs (VISTA and Job Corps), small business loans, and antipoverty measures
Capitalizing on the public’s liberal bent, Johnson wins a landslide victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater, a radical republican that wanted to use nucs on Cuba and North Vietnam
What were the goals of Johnson’s Great Society?

8. Johnson presents his legislative program, which he calls the Great Society
The Great Society demands an end to poverty and racial injustice and has a rich quality of life with education and service to community
Great Society programs bring about change in:
Education (the key to unlocking the great society),
Social security (by establishing medicare and medicaid) [Medicare-provided hospital insurance and

9. low cost medical insurance to everyone over 65] & [Medicaid- extended health insurance to welfare recipients],
Housing, (HUD) new federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Robert Weaver, the first African American Cabinet member in history was appointed as secretary of HUD
Immigration- Immigration Act of 1965 allowed more immigrants from outside of Western Europe
The Great Society also seeks to protect the

10. What were the reforms of the Warren Court?
environment (the effects of pesticides and water quality) and consumers with truth in packaging laws car safety and Meat
What were the reforms of the Warren Court?
The Supreme Court reflects the wave of liberal reform that characterizes the Great Society banning prayer in public school and limiting community censorship opening up free speech
The Warren Court affects political representation in the United States by

11. addressing the issue of reapportionment- the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them
The Warren Court expands the rights of people accused of crimes
1961 Mapp v. Ohio- evidence seized illegally could not be used in court (exclusionary rule)
1963 Gideon v. Wainwright-free legal counsel to those who can not afford it
1964 Escobedo v. Illinois- accussed has right to lawyer representation during

12. questioning
1966 Miranda v. Arizona- Miranda rights must be read before question
Right to remain silent, anything said can be used in court, right to an attorney at anytime of interrogation, public defender provided, do you want to talk w/o lawyer
Opponents believed the police were too limited in their abilities to try criminals
The Republican party used the Warren Court throughout the 60s and 70s to

13. What were the impacts of the Great Society programs?
claim democrats were soft on crime
What were the impacts of the Great Society programs?
Johnson extends the power of the federal government more than any president in the post World War II era
The reforms made by the Great Society help create a new awareness of social problems
Debates over the effectiveness of the Great Society programs result in a conservative backlash

14. Close
After winning a landslide victory in the 1964 election, Johnson began pushing his ambitious Great Society programs through Congress.
Johnson achieved real gains in civil rights , health care, and education.
However, his grand vision for America would soon be distracted by the war in Vietnam.