PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON
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Question
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President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” because ____
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he wanted to address the problems regarding civil and political rights for African Americans in the United States.
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he wanted to address the growing problems the poorest Americans were facing in the United States.
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he wanted to address how farmers were being treated during this time.
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he wanted to address the amount of immigrants coming to the United States.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent.
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).
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