PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Question
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How was Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” supposed to assist the poor?
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by providing training for the unemployed
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by increasing unemployment funding to the states
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by mandating an increase in the federal minimum wage
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by expanding opportunities for college scholarships
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Great Society was an ambitious series of policy initiatives, legislation and programs spearheaded by President Lyndon B. Johnson with the main goals of ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality and improving the environment.
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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