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

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 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

“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

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society was opposed by WHICH ONE of the following?Group of answer choicesThe Liberty LeagueThe Tea PartyEducated elites A populist backlash led by George Wallace

How did the Vietnam War affect Johnson's War on Poverty?A.Vietnam made people fear that the War on Poverty was a socialist program.B.Vietnam made LBJ more popular, and he passed more legislation.C.Vietnam took time and attention away from the War on Poverty.D.Vietnam made it easier to fight the War on Poverty.