Major Great Society Programs

Group One:

War on Poverty: forty programs intended to eliminate poverty by improving living conditions and enabling people to end the cycle of poverty.

Education: sixty separate bills that provided for new and better-equipped classrooms, minority scholarships, and low-interest student loans.

Medicare & Medicaid: guaranteed health care to every American over sixty-five.

The Environment: introduced measures to reclaim our heritage of clean air and water.

National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities: created with the philosophy that artists, performers, and writers were a priceless part of our heritage and deserve support.

Job Corps: provided enabling skills for young men and women.

Head Start: program for four- and five-year-old children from disadvantaged families that gave them a chance to start school on an even basis with other youngsters.

Group Two:

Representative sampling of the laws passed during the Johnson administration to promote the Great Society.


HIGHER EDUCATION FACILITIES ACT OF 1963                                         DEC. 16, 1963

PREVENTION & ABATEMENT OF AIR POLLUTION
(THE CLEAN AIR ACT)                                                                                          DEC. 17, 1963

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963                                                       DEC. 18, 1963

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ACT                                          JAN. 22, 1964

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964                                                                               JULY 2, 1964

URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1964                                          JULY 9, 1964

FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY ACT OF 1964                                                         AUG. 13, 1964

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT OF 1964                                                                    AUG. 20, 1964

FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1964                                                                                AUG. 31, 1964

WILDERNESS ACT                                                                                                 SEPT. 3, 1964

NATIONAL ARTS CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1964                  SEPT. 3, 1964

MANPOWER ACT OF 1965                                                                                   APRIL 26, 1965

OLDER AMERICANS ACT OF 1965                                                                    JULY 14, 1965

SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS OF 1965                                                  JULY 30, 1965

VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965                                                                            AUG. 6, 1965

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965                                AUG. 10, 1965

PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1965           AUG. 26, 1965

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT             SEPT. 9, 1965

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS & THE HUMANITIES
ACT OF    1965                                                                                                              SEPT. 29, 1965

AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION
CONTROL ACT                                                                                                            OCT. 2, 1965

AMENDMENT TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT               OCT. 3, 1965

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965                                                                      NOV. 8, 1965

CHILD NUTRITION ACT OF 1966                                                                           OCT. 11, 1966

CHILD PROTECTION ACT OF 1966                                                                       NOV. 3, 1966


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Great Society Project: THEN and NOW

 

Background: After WWII, programs from the NEW DEAL expired. President Johnson having worked in Congress during the NEW DEAL era fought to bring back social legislation to improve the American way of life.

 

Task: Research one [1] program from the Great Society and compare it to a parallel  governmental program[1] that exist in today’s society 2004.

 

Assignment:

 

  1. Read the hand-out “Johnson’s Great Society” distributed in class.
  2. Select one[1] program from the Great Society – from Group One or from Group Two.
  3. Keep track of your researched sources as you will be expected to use parenthetical references and have a WORKS CITED list with your final product.
  4. Research the program from the 1960s . . . include the following areas in your research:
    1. Funding – cost of program and date of origin
    2. Head of program
    3. Staffing – organizational bodies
    4. Group targeted by program – individuals the program assists?
    5. Components of program – aspects of  the program
    6. Duration of program – length of program’s funding and/or reasons for demise of program
    7. Success or Failure evaluation and why
  5. Next research ONE [1] program that parallels your Great Society program that    currently exists in our government and include the following areas in your research:

a.       Funding – cost of program and date of origin

b.      Head of program

c.       Staffing – organizational bodies

d.      Group targeted by program – individuals the program assists?

e.       Components of program – aspects of  the program

f.        Duration of program – length of program’s funding and/or reasons for demise of program

g.       Success or Failure evaluation and why

h.       Which programs is better – Great Society or 2004 – and why?

  1. Create a chart illustrating the components a-g for one [1] Great Society program and components a-h for a contemporary governmental program that exists today or existed within the last 20 years.
  2. Use parenthetical references to cite research.
  3. Compile a formal WORK CITED list.
  4. Project due . . . FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2004. Reduction of grade for LATE PROJECTS is -20% per day [including weekend days].

 


 

Grade Rubric:

 

  1. Projects without parenthetical references will receive -20% from the final grade.
  2. Projects without a formal WORK CITED list will receive -20% from the final grade.
  3. All projects must be placed inside a folder and have a title page and RUBRIC for grading or the project will not be accepted.
  4. Great Society programs: 1  x  _____ /100

a.        Funding – cost and date of origin  [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

b.       Head of program [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

c.        Staffing – organizational bodies [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

d.       Group targeted by program – individuals the program assists?

       [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

e.        Components of program – aspects of  the program

       [25, 23, 21, 17, 14, 12, 10, 0]

f.         Duration of program – length of program’s funding and/or reasons for demise of program [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

g.       Success or Failure evaluation and why?  [25, 23, 21, 17, 14, 12, 10, 0]

 

5.  Contemporary Governmental program:  1 x _____ /125 points

    1. Funding – cost and date of origin [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]
    2. Head of program [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]
    3. Staffing – organizational bodies [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]
    4. Group targeted by program – individuals the program assists?

       [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]

    1. Components of program – aspects of  the program

       [25, 23, 21, 17, 14, 12, 10, 0]

    1. Duration of program – length of program’s funding and/or reasons for demise of program [10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 0]
    2. Success or Failure evaluation and why?  [25, 23, 21, 17, 14, 12, 10, 0]
    3. Which program is better -- Great Society or Contemporary Program -- and why?

                    [25, 23, 21, 17, 14, 12, 10, 0]

 

Great Society #1                               Contemporary Program

 

a.   _________/10                            a.  __________/10

 

b.   _________/10                            b.  __________/10

 

c.   _________/10                            c.  __________/10

 

d.   _________/10                            d.  __________/10

 

e.   _________/25                             e.  __________/25

 

f.   _________/10                              f.  __________/10

 

g.   _________/25                            g.  __________/25

 

                                                              h.  __________/25

 

 

__________/100                                   __________/125

 

                                                                        Total:  ____________/225 points

 

 

                                                                               =  ____________%