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QUIZ Today

Domestic Policy and the role of Government

Kennedy and Johnson

Kennedy and Johnson Administrations

John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson

Remember…The New Deal

What was it?A bunch of laws

that were designed to stimulate the economy and put people back to work. It would provide relief, recovery and reform.

Remember…The New Deal

Who did it?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember…The New Deal

Why did we need

it?We were in the

midst of the Great

Depression…The US

economy was broken.

FDR expands the size of the federal government and the power of the presidency.

What did the New Deal to the size of the federal government and the power of the presidency?

President FDR

Executive Branch

Analyze the purpose of Kennedy and Johnson’s social reform programs and compare and

contrast them from FDR’s New Deal program and programs of the Progressive Era.

Today’s Objective

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great

Society

John F. Kennedy’s New

Frontier

Progressive Era

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

Reform

John F. Kennedy

says America

needs to explore

the New Frontier…

The US must

confront poverty,

crime, housing

issues, healthcare,

and other social

problems

John F. Kennedy and

theNew Frontier

Why does JFK all of a sudden say we need to confront these issues?

Civil rights activists pressuring the government

Increased activity from organized labor/unions

[W]e stand today on the edge of a New Frontier -— the frontier of the 1960's, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats. ... Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus…

The Impact of the New Frontier

Many programs are passed to expand Food Stamps, increase unemployment benefits, fund education and housing

JFK is Assassinated

Lyndon B. Johnson says that he will

continue the programs of Kennedy

by building the “Great Society” and

starting a “War on Poverty”

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society

BUILDING THE GREAT SOCIETY

• In May of 1964, LBJ summed up his vision for America in a phrase: “The Great Society”

• By 1969, Congress had passed 206 of LBJ’s Great Society policies and laws.

What is the message of this cartoon?

President Johnson and Congress believe that

poverty was a major flaw in our economic system.

War on Poverty

Economic Opportunity Act of 1965Created several social programs to promote the health, education, and

general welfare of the impoverished--Job Corps and Head Start are two examples

EDUCATION

• Johnson considered education “the key which can unlock the door to the Great Society”

• Supposed to treat the causes for poverty

HEALTHCARE• LBJ and Congress

enhanced Social Security by establishing Medicare and Medicaid

• Medicare provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical care to the elderly

• Medicaid provided health benefits to the poor

HOUSINGUS Department of Housing and

Urban Development (HUD)

• LBJ and Congress gave money to build 240,000 units of low-rent public housing

• Established the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and appointed the first black cabinet member, Robert Weaver, as HUD’s first leader

Weaver

IMMIGRATION REFORM• The Natural Origins Acts of

the 1920s strongly discriminated against imm. by those outside of W. Europe by setting quotas on imm. from Asia and S. and E. Europe.

• Immigration Act of 1965 opened the door for many non-European immigrants by lifting quotas

WHAT WAS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GREAT SOCIETY AND THE NEW DEAL?

Great Society

Attempted to treat the causes for poverty by creating better education programs

New Deal

Gave more direct relief and aid to people during the Great Depression

What was the effect on the size of government of all these government initiatives?

Progressive Era FDR’s New Deal

Kennedy’s New Frontier

Johnson’s Great Society

Government gets

bigger!!!!