Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Major Great Society Programs
Health and Welfare
Education
The “War on Poverty”
Consumer and
Environmental
Protection
Medicare (1965)
The Elementary and
The Office of Economic
The Water Quality Act
established a
Secondary Education Act Opportunity (1964)
and Clear Air Acts
comprehensive health
(1965) targeted aid to
oversaw many programs to (1965) supported the
insurance program for all
students and funded related improve life in inner cities, standards and goals for
elderly people; financed
activities such as adult
including the Job Corps, an water and air quality.
through the Social Security education and education
education and training
system.
counseling.
program for at-risk youth.
Medicaid (1965) funded
Higher Education Act
Housing and Urban
The Highway Safety Act
by federal and state
(1965) supported college
Development Act (1965) (1966) supported highway
governments, provided
tuition scholarships,
established new housing
safety by improving
health and medical
student loans, and worksubsidy programs and
federal, state, and local
assistance to low-income
study programs for lowmade federal loans and
coordination and by
families.
and middle-income
public housing grants
creating standards for
students.
easier to obtain.
emergency medical
technicians.
Child Nutrition Act
Project Head Start (1965) Demonstration Cities and The Fair Packaging and
(1966) established a school funded a preschool
Metropolitan
Labeling Act (1966)
breakfast program and
program for the
Development Act (1966) required all consumer
expanded the school lunch disadvantaged.
helped revitalize urban
products to have true and
program and milk program
areas through a variety of
informative labels.
to improve children’s poor
social and economic
nutrition.
programs.
© Glencoe, The American Republic Since 1877
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© Pecos (Texas) Independent School District
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
© Metric Mind Engineering
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© Shippensburg (Pennsylvania) Sentinel
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© Cherokee Nation
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© Kansas State Bank
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
© Seattle (Washington) Housing Authority
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
© Texas Department of Human Services
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© American International Schools
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
3. Which Great
Society program
supports what is seen
in this picture?
1. What do you see
here?
2. How can the
government help
in this situation?
© Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (North Carolina)
4. How does this
program support
what is shown in this
picture?
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Directions: Carefully examine each of the pictures and describe what is happening in each. Use the chart “Major Great Society
Programs” found on page 736 of the textbook to determine which specific program is addressed in each picture and complete the
following chart.
Picture Source
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
Which Program of
the Great Society
is Addressed?
Explain Why You Chose This Great
Society Program
Pecos Independent School
District
Metric Mind Engineering
Shippensburg Sentinel
Cherokee Nation
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Picture Source
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
Which Program of
the Great Society
is Addressed?
Explain Why You Chose This Great
Society Program
Kansas State Bank
Seattle Housing Authority
Texas Department of Human
Services
American International Schools
National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Picture Source
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
Which Program of
the Great Society
is Addressed?
Explain Why You Chose This Great
Society Program
Public Library of Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Teacher Key
Directions: Carefully examine each of the pictures and describe what is happening in each. Use the chart “Major Great Society
Programs” found on page 736 of the textbook to determine which specific program is addressed in each picture and complete the
following chart.
Picture Source
Pecos Independent School
District
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
A teacher is helping students
work on an art project in
school.
Heavy traffic in an urban
area has led to smog.
Which Program of
Explain Why You Chose This Great
the Great Society
Society Program
is Addressed?
Project Head Start This program set up a preschool
program for disadvantaged students.
The Water
Quality Act and
Clean Air Act
This law promotes higher standards for
the quality of clean air.
A doctor examines an elderly
patient.
Medicare
This program assists the elderly in their
medical needs through a comprehensive
health insurance program.
Advertising aimed at
Cherokee youths to receive a
variety of job trainings.
Job Corps
This program provides education and
job training for at-risk youths such as
those living on the Cherokee reservation.
Metric Mind Engineering
Shippensburg Sentinel
Cherokee Nation
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Picture Source
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
Kansas State Bank
Advertisement promoting
supplemental loans to college
loans.
Seattle Housing Authority
Picture of Westwood Heightsa high-rise complex that is
affordable for the elderly
A medical practitioner
examines a baby
Which Program of
Explain Why You Chose This Great
the Great Society
Society Program
is Addressed?
Higher Education One part of this program allowed
Act
students to obtain loans for their college
education.
Housing and
Urban
Development Act
Medicaid
Texas Department of Human
Services
The complex was established through a
public housing grant.
This program provided health and
medical assistance to low-income
families.
Children are eating their
lunch in a school cafeteria
Child Nutrition
Act
School lunch programs were expanded
to improve children’s nutritional needs.
Nutrition facts for a specific
product are shown on that
product’s label.
The Fair
Packaging and
Labeling Act
Consumer products are required to have
true and informative labels.
American International Schools
National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
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Evaluating the Impact of the Great Society
Picture Source
Public Library of Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County
Describe What is Happening
in the Picture
Emergency medical
technicians assist a person
who has been in an accident
Which Program of
Explain Why You Chose This Great
the Great Society
Society Program
is Addressed?
The Highway
Emergency medical technicians are
Safety Act
required to meet certain standards
before they can begin assisting people.
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