LBJ's Great Society

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Across
  1. 5. Rights guaranteed to anyone accused of a crime, right to remain silent and right to an attorney
  2. 7. 1965- Required states to clean up their rivers
  3. 9. 1965- Ended the practice of requiring voters to pass literacy tests and permitted the federal government to monitor voter registration
  4. 10. 1966- Set standards for labeling consumer products
  5. 11. 1966- Set federal safety standards for the auto and tire industries
  6. 12. 1964- Abolished the poll tax in federal elections
  7. 14. 1965- Provided money for low-income housing
  8. 15. 1965- Directed the federal government to establish emissions standards for new motor vehicles
  9. 17. 1965- Established Medicare and Medicaid
  10. 18. 1965- Set aside over 9 million acres for national forest lands
  11. 19. 1964- Cut corporate and individual taxes to stimulate growth
Down
  1. 1. 1967- Set federal air pollution guidelines and extended federal enforcement power
  2. 2. 1965-Funded scholarships and low-interest loans for college students
  3. 3. 1964- Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and jobs; increased federal power to prosecute civil rights abuses
  4. 4. President Lyndon B Johnson's ideal country
  5. 6. 1964- Created Job Corps, Project Head Start, and other programs to fight “war on poverty”
  6. 8. 1965- Ended national-origins quotas established in 1924
  7. 11. extended health insurance to welfare recipients
  8. 13. provides hospital insurance and low-cost medical insurance for almost any citizen over the age of 65
  9. 16. 1965- Directed money to schools for textbooks, library materials and special education