ITS MAY DAY:)
President Lyndon Johnson
- JFK's vice president... he was there to help get southern votes
- Took over as President after JFK was assassinated.
- he was from Minnesota
Elections:
- 1964 President Election
- He gained Kennedy's popularity when he did
- He had 61%
- first and last time democrat has won Alaska
- major shift in electors, where the the parties of state change
- " I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President"
- Vietnam was wearing him down so he didn't run again
- he didn't run in 1968
Accomplishments
- Warren commission to find out who killed JFK
- Great Society
aid education-
Elementary and Secondary Education Act-federal money was given to the schools and focus was on poor schools
Higher Education Act of 1965- which found on funding lower income students, including grants, work-study money, and government loans.
Economic Opportunity Act- helped start Head Start, food stamps, Work Security, Medicate and Medicare.
- gun control
- Gun Control of 1968 no minors could buy guns
-attack disease
-Medicate and Medicare
-urban renewal
-prevent crime
-war on poverty
-right to vote
- Civil Rights
-Passed Civil Rights Act of 64, which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.
-Passed the voting act rights in 65, allowed Blacks to vote-Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non-European people to immigrate to US.
-Started affirmative action laws- they would make businesses, companies, and colleges to force accept African Americans.
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