AP®︎ US History: Topic 8.9 Flashcards

President who used his legislative skill and 1964 electoral mandate to enact the Great Society

Johnson’s broad domestic reform program to reduce poverty, protect civil rights, expand opportunity, and improve quality of life through federal action

Belief in civil rights, social welfare, regulation, economic management, and federal power to achieve social goals, combined with anti-communism abroad

Author whose 1962 book The Other America publicized persistent poverty amid postwar affluence

Michael Harrington’s 1962 book exposing the largely invisible poverty that persisted amid national prosperity

Johnson’s intense personal persuasion of legislators to obtain political support and congressional votes

Johnson’s landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater gave him a strong mandate and large Democratic congressional majorities

Great Society campaign using education, training, health, food, legal aid, and community programs to reduce poverty and expand opportunity

Law that launched major War on Poverty programs and created the Office of Economic Opportunity

Federal agency created by the Economic Opportunity Act to coordinate the War on Poverty

War on Poverty program providing education and vocational training, especially to disadvantaged young people

Domestic volunteer program that placed participants in low-income communities, often described as a home-front Peace Corps

Program providing preschool education, nutrition, health screening, and related services to children from low-income families

Federally funded local antipoverty programs seeking the “maximum feasible participation” of poor residents in decision-making

War on Poverty initiative providing legal assistance to people unable to afford representation

Law that made the federal food stamp program permanent to provide food assistance to eligible low-income Americans

Federally administered social insurance providing health coverage primarily to Americans age 65 and older

Means-tested medical assistance for eligible low-income Americans, jointly financed by federal and state governments and administered by states

Law providing continuing federal aid to public schools, especially those serving large numbers of low-income children

Law expanding scholarships, grants, work-study opportunities, and federally supported student loans

Law prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations and employment and strengthening federal power against segregation

Law attacking state and local barriers that had disfranchised African Americans, especially in the South

Law whose fair housing provisions prohibited many forms of racial discrimination in housing sales and rentals

Johnson’s 1965 Howard University address arguing that removing legal barriers was insufficient to overcome accumulated racial inequality

Law abolishing national-origins quotas and emphasizing family reunification and occupational skills in immigration admissions

Cabinet department created in 1965 to oversee federal housing and urban policy

Program that attempted to coordinate housing, transportation, education, employment, and social services in selected urban neighborhoods

Federal agency created in 1965 to support artistic and cultural projects

Federal agency created in 1965 to support historical, scholarly, educational, and humanities projects

Law creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to support noncommercial public television and radio

Law protecting designated federal lands as wilderness and extending Great Society reform into conservation

Johnson’s attempt to fund the Vietnam War and Great Society programs simultaneously, producing budgetary and political strain

Law that created Medicare and Medicaid, greatly expanding the federal role in health care