1. QOD 5/6
Why do you think President Kennedy called his domestic program the “New Frontier”?

2. Kennedy’s New Frontier

3. New Frontier Name of Kennedy’s domestic program Why given this name?
Wanted to improve:
Economy -Start Space program
Education
Healthcare
Civil Rights

4. Poverty After reading book, The Other America, Kennedy wanted to focus
on poverty in USA

5. Poverty To help with poverty, he: Increased minimum wage
Extended Social Security benefits
Improved the welfare system
Helped to pass the Equal Pay Act (1963), equal pay for equal work between men and women

6. Fixing the Economy
Wanted to fix American’s sluggish economy of high unemployment of early 60s:
Tax credits to businesses
Increased military spending = new jobs
Deficit spending- gov’t borrows money to spend more than receives in taxes to boost economy - leads to tax cuts for lower and middle classes (put $ in people’s pockets)

7. Civil Rights Pursued civil rights cautiously
1963 (violence in Birmingham) influenced Kennedy to pursue Civil Rights Bill
Passed in 1964 by LBJ after Kennedy’s assassination

8. Space Race Race between Soviets and USA to land on the moon
Kennedy wanted US to land a man on the moon by 1970
July, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first American astronaut to step on the moon

9. Kennedy Assassinated
November, Traveled to Dallas to campaign for ’64 election
Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission: Did Oswald work alone? Official investigation found that Oswald was the “lone killer”