“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

To fight poverty in the United States, Johnson's Great Society focused the majority of its efforts on what aspect of society? housing taxes civil rights education

Which was NOT part of President Johnson's 1965-1967 "Great Society"?Group of answer choicescivil rights and voting rightsMedicare and Medicaida "War on Poverty"the overturning of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947funding for education and urban development

Which of the following is a true statement about the Great Society? It was President Kennedy's original idea. Vietnam was the main cause of its end. Congress blocked every proposed law. Great Society laws were conservative.

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

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.