Passed Civil Rights Act (1964)- outlawed most forms of racial segregation
Passed Civil Rights Act (1965) - outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing million of southern blacks to vote for the first time
Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non- Europe people to immigrate to US Immigration more than doubled between 1965-1970
Started affirmative action laws
The Great Society
Medicare and Medicaid
war on poverty
remove obstacles to the right to vote
Gun Control Act of 1968- regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. Passed in response to the assassinations of JKF,RFK, and MLK
Richard Nixon
Back ground
- Richard Milhous Nixon
- Born on January 9, 1913
Parents Frank Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon
- 1950 won senate seat
- Selected by general Eisenhower
Election
- Ran against JFK and Harry F. Ford
- lost election by one of the smallest elections in history
Election 1968
- Won the Republican party's nomination
- Defeated Hurbert H. Humphry
Election 1972
- Massive blowout
- George McGovern
Approval Rating
First Term
- 55.8%
Second Term
- 34.4%
Overall Average Approval Rating
- 49%
Top 10
- Watergate Scandal
- Visit to China
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Apollo 11 moon landing
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Congress broadens US Civil Rights Commission mandate
- Office of Management and Budget
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Nuclear Arms Control Agreements with Soviet Union
- Nixon Doctrine(Guam Doctrine)
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