President Lyndon Johnson- 36th
- JFK's vice president
- took over as president after JFK was assassinated
- ran against Barry Goldwater
- he didn't run for president in '68 because of the Vietnam war
- The great society: Johnson's plan to: aid education, attack disease, medicare and medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed religions, war on poverty, control and prevention and of crime, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. Helped younger people and people in poverty.
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965- For the first time, large amounts of federal money went to public schools and the focus was poor schools
- Higher Education Act of 1965- Which focused on funding lower income students including grants work study money and government loans
- set up the national endowment for the arts
- Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stamps, Work study, medicare and medicaid
- Gun control Act of 1968 regulates the firearms industry and firearms owners. Passed in response to assassinations.
- Put together the warren commission to investigate the JFK
- Passed civil rights Act of 1964 which outlawed most forms of racial segregation
- Passed voting rights act which outlawed discrimination in voting this allowing millions of southern black to vote for the first time
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