Accomplishments:
- Immigration and National- opened up immigration; main focus was making its easier for immigrants to come over who had family who were already citizens of the United States.
- Great Society Program=eliminate poverty, aid education, attack disease, medicare and medicaid, urban renewal, beautification/development of depressed regions, war on poverty, control prevention of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
- Great Society Program = For the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools.
- One way to get out of going to the Vietnam War was to go to college so that number went up drastically.
- Head Start = before kindergarten, it gives lower income families give kids a head start so they are all caught up when they officially start school
- Gave loans to higher-school kids
- Gun Control Act of 1968 - he wanted to stop the improper use of gun usage; three assassinations that helped this bill pass was.. 1. Kennedy 2. Bobby Kennedy 3. Martin Luther King Jr.
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