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JFK’s “New Frontier”

JFK’s “New Frontier”. Read the following quote from President Kennedy. What are the goals of the new President?.

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JFK’s “New Frontier”

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  1. JFK’s “New Frontier” • Read the following quote from President Kennedy. • What are the goals of the new President?

  2. “We stand on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams, a frontier of unknown opportunities and beliefs in peril. Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.” JFK, 1960

  3. JFK’s “The New Frontier” • Became the label for JFK’s domestic programs. • Many of JFK’s liberal ideas and programs won’t become effective until after his death. • Aid to education and the elderly • Increase in minimum wage • Urban and civil rights reform • Space exploration

  4. Other New Frontier Reforms Describe the impact of the new frontier on each of the following topics • Minimum wage • Housing Act of 1961 • Twenty-fourth Amendment • Equal Pay Act • Aid to the unemployed/poor • Aid to the elderly • The Environment • Consumer Protection • Worldly relations

  5. Initiatives of the New Frontier • Congress passed an increase in minimum wage from $1.15 to $1.25 an hour • The Housing Act of 1961 provided $4.9 billion for urban renewal • 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax • Equal Pay Act=same pay for same work

  6. Aid to the unemployed/poor and elderly • Executive order to provide food to unemployed Americans • Area Redevelopment law to help communities plagued with long-term unemployment • Extending Social Security benefits • Programs to help ailing families become independent of government benefits • Federal program to address juvenile delinquency • Americans were able to retire at 62WHY?

  7. Environment/Consumer Protection • More federal resources to stop water pollution • Construction of the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Washington • Increased laws on food and drugs being tested before being sold to consumers

  8. Worldly Relations • Trade Expansion Actreduce American tariffs to encourage free trade • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty—limited testing of nuclear weapons to underground only

  9. Other Impact Programs • JFK used deficit spending to create more jobs, fund programs and stimulate the economy • Presidential Commission on the Status of Women led by Eleanor Roosevelt—documented ongoing discrimination • Continued the funding of NASA • Announced the goal of landing a man on the moon • Project Mercury—manned space flight • Alan Shepard—1st American in space in May 1961 • John Glenn—1st American to orbit the earth Feb. 20, 1962

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