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11 Cards in this Set
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Johnson's proposals for aid to public education, voting rights, conservation, and beautification projects, medical care for the elderly and elimination of poverty
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Great Society
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A preschool program for children from low-income families that also provides health care, nutrition services and social services
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Head Start
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Federal program that sends volunteers to help people in poor communities
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Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
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Federal program that provides hospital and low-cots medical insurance to most Americans age 65 and older
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Medicare
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Federal program that provides low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age
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Medicaid
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Law that ended quotas for individual countries and replaced them with more flexible limits
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Immigration Act of 1965
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Rule that police officers must inform persons accused of a crime of their legal rights
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Miranda rule
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Distribution of seats in a legislative body
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Apportionment
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What domestic programs did Johnson propose?
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The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, tax relief, medical benefits for the elderly and the poor (Medicare/Medicaid), educational assitance, programs to fight poverty, easing immigration restrictions, funding for cultural and consumer measures, environmental protection
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Describe three landmark decisions handed down by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): the courts ruled the states could not prohibit birth control; Baker v. Carr (1962): held that state reapportionment had to be on the basis of "one person, one vote"; Miranda v. Arizona (1966): court ruled that police must make suspects aware of their rights before questioning
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Identify the major effects of the Great Society.
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It created new social programs and used government to attack social problems head-on, especially through the launching of the war on poverty. Gains were limited, by the increase in military spending for the Vietnam war.
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