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Lydon B.Jonson

Lydon B.Jonson. By yahil gonzalez 3 rd Theme b project. Intended causes.

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Lydon B.Jonson

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  1. LydonB.Jonson

    By yahilgonzalez 3rd Theme b project
  2. Intended causes The Great society was a plan to aid education, attack on disease, Medicare, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime and delinquency, removal of obstacles to the right to vote. The war on poverty: tried to help poor Americans and created Medicare for the elderly
  3. Unintended causes The funds he used for the war on poverty were needed for the Vietnam war and he soon came into a problem
  4. Laws passed by him: 1964 civil rights Act: itgave federal government the right to end segregation in the South it prohibited segregation in public places. A public place was anywhere that received any form of federal (tax) funding (most places). This stopped lawyers homing in on the private places issue. This act tried to cover every aspect that some lawyer might use to avoid implementing this act. an Equal Employment Commission was created federal funding would not be given to segregated schools (note that these had been banned in 1954, ten years previous!) any company that wanted federal business (the biggest spender of money in American business) had to have a pro-civil rights charter. Any segregationist company that applied for a federal contact would not get it. resulted in an outbreak of violence in the South.
  5. Laws passed by him: 1965 Voting Act: was introduced in on of best speeches:"Rarely are we met with a challenge…..to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved Nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such as an issue…..the command of the Constitution is plain. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to  vote in this country."The Act was passed. It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. As far as Johnson was concerned, all you needed to vote was American citizenship and the registration of your name on an electoral list. No form of hindrance to this would be tolerated by the law courts.
  6. Another law/Act: In 1968, another Civil Rights Act was passed which prohibited racial discrimination in the sale or rental of houses. Signs such as "Negroes need not apply" were no longer tolerated in a society becoming more and more traumatized by the Vietnam War.
  7. The End: Thanks for watching.
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