FLVS US History 7.01 Great Society Quiz

27 August 2022
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One of President Kennedy's proposed pieces of legislation that President Johnson successfully passed through Congress was the
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Tax Reduction Act of 1964
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Some critics of the Great Society believed that anti-poverty programs benefited which group the most?
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African Americans
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The image shows a restaurant that has closed its doors to African Americans. It reflects a reaction to what Great Society legislation?
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Civil Rights Act
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A major legacy of President Johnson's domestic policy is
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civil rights legislation
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The poor in the 1960s were
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disproportionately African American and suffered greater rates of disease and malnutrition
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Which of the following is a true statement about the Great Society?
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Vietnam was the main cause of its end.
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President Johnson's Great Society
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expanded New Deal legislation and created new social programs
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President Johnson believed that to become a Great Society, the nation needed to first fix
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poverty and racial discrimination
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One of the ways the Great Society is considered an improvement over the New Deal is that it
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addressed civil rights
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The first Great Society program to address the "War on Poverty" was the
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Economic Opportunity Act
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Besides creating jobs, what did President Johnson believe was the key to ending poverty?
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improving education
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The trend shown in this table is a reflection of which Great Society legislative action?
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Tax Reduction Act, 1964
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The trend in this table reflects which of the following Great Society programs?
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Immigration Act
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Great Society programs of the 1960s led to
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a decrease in the poverty rate