Johnson Chapter 20 section 3

Lyndon Baines Johnson LBJ 1937

Won a special election top fill a vacant seat in the U.S House of Representatives

“New Dealer” Small ranchers and struggling farmers

Imitated FDR’s leadership

1948 Won the Democratic primary elections for

the Senate

Civil Rights Act of 1957 A voting rights measured that was the

first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction

Once Johnson was in the office he urged congress to pass some of Kennedy’s bills Civil Rights

July 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Will prohibit discrimination based on race,

religion, national origins, and sex and granted the federal government new powers to enforce its provisions

Tax-Cut bills February1964 congress passed a tax

reduction of $10 billion

“Unconditional war on Poverty” 1964 Congress enacted the Economic

Opportunity Act EOA Approving $1 billion for youth programs,

antipoverty measures, small-business loans, and job training

EOA Job Corps Youth Training Program VISTA

Volunteers in Service to America Project Head Start

An education program for underprivileged preschoolers

Community Action Program Encouraged poor people to participate in

public-works programs

Election 1964 Barry Goldwater

Republican Nominee Attacked Social Security Frightened many Americans

Johnson assured the Americans that he would not send troops into Vietnam

LBJ won the election with 61% of the popular vote

Great Society May 1964 Vision for America

“The key which would unlock the door to the great society”

Secondary and Elementary Act of 1965 would provide more than $1 billion in federal aid

Healthcare Medicare

Provided hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost every American 65 years old or older

Medicaid Extended health insurance to welfare

recipients

Housing Shift of the nations political power from

rural to urban areas Getting money to build low-rent public

housing Developing HUD

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Immigration Changes to the Immigration Act of 1924

and National Origins Act of 1924 Established immigration quotas that

discriminated strongly against people from outside Western Europe

150,000 Southern and Eastern Europe Asia

Immigration Act of 1965 Opened the door for many non-

European immigrants to settle in the United States by ending quotas based on nationality

Supreme Court in 1960’s 1954

Brown vs. Board of Education Ruled school segregation unconstitutional

Warren Court Banned state-sanctioned prayer in public

schools and declared state-required loyalty oaths unconstitutional

Reapportionment Way in which states redraw election

districts based on the changing number of people in them

80% lived in cities and suburbs

1962 First of several decisions that

established the principle of “one person, one vote”

Federal courts had the right to tell sates to reapportion

Re-divide

Mapp vs. Ohio 1961 Evidence seized illegally could not be used in

State courts Exclusionary rule

Justices required criminal courts to provide free legal counsel to those who could not afford it

Justices ruled that an accused person has a right to have a lawyer present during police questioning

Miranda vs. Arizona Ruled that all suspects must be read their

rights before questioning

Liberals said that these ruling places limits on police power and protected the rights of all citizens to a fair trial

Conservatives said that it benefited the criminal and severely limited the power of the police to investigate