Today we reviewed a little bit about the assasination of JFK. Then we talked got back into talking about presidents and the powerpoint.
Linden Johnson
-wanted to get us involved in vietnam
-not to well liked by Kennedys
-he won be telling poeple that if they didnt vote for him nuclier war would happen
-put the Warren Commission to investigate the JFK assassination
-passed civil right act of 1964, 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 poeple to immigrate to U.S. immigration for that double of the poeple that came the year before this was passed
The Great Society
-Johnson's plan to
-aid education
-attack disease
-Medicare and Medicade
-urban renewal
-beautification, conservation, development
-war on poverty
-control and prevention of time
-removal of obsticals to the right to vote.
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