Finish up a couple of our projects.
I want to take the History test Orally.
I have background for next Assigned Blog.
Johnson's Presidential Accomplishments:
Put together the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assentation.
Passed Civil Rights Act of 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation.
Passed Voting Rights Act 1965 which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time.
Started affirmative action laws.
Passed Immigration Act of 1965 which allowed more non- European people to immigrate to US Immigration more than doubled between 1965- 1970.
The great society: Johnson's plan to: Aid education, attack disease, Medicare and Medicaid, Urban renewal. Beautiful society.
The Cietnam Conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency. Believed in Domino Theory. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
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