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• Help people to turn their lives around

• Make a difference in people’s lives

• VISTA = Volunteers in Service to America

• When in Congress….

• Passed Civil Rights Act of 1957

• A voting rights measure was the first Civil Rights legislation since Reconstruction

• Cut deficit by reducing taxes

• Civil Rights Act of 1964–Prohibited

discrimination on race, religion, natural origin, sex

• Economic Opportunity Act (1964)– Job corps youth training

program– VISTA– Project Head Start –

education program for underprivileged preschoolers

– Encourage people to join in public works programs

• Major Reason Johnson wins is because of Goldwater’s call for the use of nuclear weapons against Cuba and Vietnam

• End poverty and racial injustice

• Equal opportunity

• Richer quality of life for all

• EDUCATION:–Elementary and

Secondary Education Act of 1965

–1 billion in federal aid to help public and parochial schools

• HEALTHCARE:

– Medicare – hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost all Americans over 65

– Medicaid – health insurance for welfare recipients

• HOUSING:– Established

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

– Robert Weaver – first African-American Cabinet member

• IMMIGRATION:

–Immigration Act of 1965

–Opened door for many non-European immigrants

• CONSUMER PROTECTION– Congress passed may

safety laws– Truth-in-packaging law

that set standards for labeling consumer goods

– Ralph Nader – safety standards for automobiles and tires

• Chief Justice Earl Warren

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) – Warren Court ruled school segregation was unconstitutional

• Warren Court–Banned state-sanctioned

prayer in public schools–State-required loyalty

oaths unconstitutional – The Warren Court

brought about change in federal and state reapportionment and the criminal justice system

• CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT– Reapportionment – the way

in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people within those election districts

– Baker v. Carr (1962) – “One Person, One Vote” Should be equal representation in each district. Not one district have 100,000 people, and one district having 500.

• RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED– Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Court ruled that evidence seized illegally could not be used in court

– Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) criminal courts had to provide free counsel for those who could not afford it

– Miranda v. Arizona (1966) must be read your rights

• No president in the post-World War II era extended the power and reach of the federal government more than Lyndon B. Johnson

• The “war on poverty” was successful

• Johnson’s tax cuts (deficit spending) helped spur the economy