Which sentence best defines the central idea of President Johnson's speech?from Remarks at the University of MichiganMay 22, 1964by Lyndon B. Johnson     For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent. For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people.     The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization. Your imagination, your initiative, and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled growth. For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.     The Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. But that is just the beginning. The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where leisure is a welcome chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and restlessness. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.     It is a place where man can renew contact with nature. It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what it adds to the understanding of the race. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.     But most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

“Both the phrase ‘Great Society’ and the planning for it dated to May 1964, when [President Lyndon] Johnson addressed the graduating class of the University of Michigan. ‘We have the opportunity,’ he proclaimed, ‘to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.’ . . . Starting in that summer [of 1964] he also established the first of what ultimately became 135 ‘task forces’ to study a wide range of social problems. . . . Much of what he requested aimed to go beyond . . . the New Deal in order to create a Great Society that would be qualitatively better and that would guarantee ‘rights’ and government entitlements.”James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974, published in 1996QuestionThe expansion of African American rights during the Great Society was most similar to which of the following earlier situations?ResponsesThe federal support for unionization of workers in the 1930sThe federal support for unionization of workers in the 1930sThe new laws protecting consumer rights in the 1900sThe new laws protecting consumer rights in the 1900sThe end of property requirements for voting during the Jacksonian eraThe end of property requirements for voting during the Jacksonian eraThe passage of constitutional amendments during Reconstru

Which sentence from Washington's letter BEST summarizes a main idea?AThe North, with its shipping, business and manufacturing companies helps the South, with its valuable materials, agriculture and their own seaports.BThe new Constitution sets up a government that shares power.CThrough these last eight years, I worry that I may have committed many errors.DI seek that retreat knowing my fellow citizens to be under the influence of good laws and under a free government.

Which sentence from Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia Delegates best represents an attempt to appeal to logos to persuade the reader?A.I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.B.Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?C.I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!D.Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

President Johnson believed that to become a Great Society, the nation needed to first fix safety in consumer products poverty and racial discrimination low-quality housing in urban areas gender discrimination and pollution

Read the excerpt from President Ronald Reagan’s speech on the night before the 1980 presidential election. A popular novel of the '60s ended prophetically with its description of a "kindly, pleasant, greening land about to learn whether history still has a place for a nation so strangely composed of great ideals and uneasy compromise as she.” That is really the question before us tonight: for the first time in our memory many Americans are asking: does history still have a place for America, for her people, for her great ideals? There are some who answer "no”; that our energy is spent, our days of greatness at an end, that a great national malaise is upon us. They say we must cut our expectations, conserve and withdraw, that we must tell our children . . . not to dream as we once dreamed. Last year I lost a friend who was more than a symbol of the Hollywood dream industry; to millions he was a symbol of our country itself. And when he died, the headlines seemed to convey all the doubt about America, all the nostalgia for a seemingly lost past. "The Last American Hero,” said one headline; "Mr. America dies,” said another. Well, I knew John Wayne well, and no one would have been angrier at being called the "last American hero.” Just before his death, he said in his own blunt way, "Just give the American people a good cause, and there’s nothing they can’t lick.” Duke Wayne did not believe that our country was ready for the dust bin of history, and if we’ll just think about it we too will know it isn’t. Which ideas from the excerpt would be most appropriate to include in a summary? Select three options. Popular novels from the past often ask provocative questions that are important to consider today. Many Americans have given up and say that the nation is no longer great or a land of dreams. John Wayne, nicknamed Duke, was an iconic Hollywood actor and filmmaker. President Reagan believed that John Wayne would argue that he was not the last American hero, because there are many more. Duke Wayne died as a symbol of the Hollywood dream industry.