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- "The War on Poverty"
- Slogan during LBJ; for grouping together the major social welfare goals of LBJ administration
- 23rd Amendment 1961
- Allow voters in Washington, DC to participate in presidential elections
- Alliance for Progress program 1961
- Done by Kenney in hopes of stemming communist expanision in Latin America; provided funds for economic development: imporvements in schools, trasnportation, housing, and public health. Mixed results.
- Baker v. Carr 1962
- Supreme Court says that federal courts have power over cases in which state apportionment formulas were being challenged
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Designed to coordinate federal invovlement with housing improvements and urban development projects; LBJ's office term
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act 1965
- PRivded federal aid of over one billion dollars to school districts; during LBJ office term
- Engel v. Vitale 1962
- Reading of a nonsectarian prayer in a public school violates the 1st Amendment
- Escobedo v. Illinios 1964
- Person charged ith a crime has the right to be told he can have a lawyer prior to being questioned
- Gideon v. Wainright 1963
- Person who can't afford a lawyer has the right to have the state furnish him with one in a criminal case
- Key measure of the War on Poverty:
- Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 = created the OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity) = establish job and work training classes and provide loans to small businesses that hired the unemployed
- Lee Harvey Oswlad
- Arrested for murder of Pres. Kennedy
- Mapp v. Ohio 1961
- Any evidence unreasonably acquired by the police cannot be admitted as evidence in a trail. Also caled "the exclusionary rule"
- Miranda v. Arizona 1966
- Police must inform a person accused of a crime of his right to remain silent, as well as any other rights, prior to any questioning
- Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963
- US and USSR agree to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, in space, and underwater.
- President after Kennedy was assasinated:
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Promised to make America a "Great Society"
- LBJ (very successful)
- The Immigration ACt of 1965
- Ended quotas based on national origin
- The main domestic concern of the Kennedy administration:
- Civil Rights movement
- The Peace Corps 1961
- Designed to send US civilian volunteers to developing nations
- The single most crucial foreign policy challenge to the LBJ administration ersted with the escalating violence in:
- Vietnam. Failed attempts influence LBJ not to seek re-election in 1968
- This president established Medicare and Medicaid during his time
- LBJ