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LBJ Great Society - Coggle Diagram
LBJ Great Society
Poverty 
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The act that Johnson passed Volunteers in Service to America, which resembled a domestic Peace Corps.
Served on Native American reserves, inner city schools, rural health clinics, and inner city hospitals.
Health care
- Congress passed parts of Johnson's Great Society legislation
- Johnson's agenda consisted of adding the Medical Care for Aged Program, which many called Medicare as it became more popular.
- Medicaid provided basic medical service to poor and disabled Americans who were not part of the Social Security
- Medicare provided basic hospital insurance for Americans in the Social Security system who were 65 and older
Environment and Consumer
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Water Quality Act, Clean Water Restoration Act, and National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety were passed.
Election of 1964
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Education
- It was on of the centerpieces of the Great Society program
- the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act was designed to aid schools in poorer communities
-It provided federal funding which improved school libraries, learning center, language laboratories, and service
It provided federal funding which improved school libraries, learning center, language laboratories, and service
Immigration
- The National Origins Acts of 1921 and1924 had established a quota system that favored Western European immigrants and limited immigrants from other parts of the world
- The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 altered America's quota system into the country
- There were about 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere
-People from
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