PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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federal government is solely responsible for the war on poverty
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court system must be held accountable for poverty
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problem of poverty is easily solved
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entire country must help fight poverty
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The term was first coined during a 1964 commencement address by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his first State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress to declare an “unconditional war on poverty” and to aim “not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it” (1965).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Society asks not how much, but how good; not only how to create wealth but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people.
Detailed explanation-4: -When President Johnson came to office 22 percent of the nation’s families lived in poverty (down from 30 percent in 1950).