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Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), 1964
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Federal program that sends volunteers to help people in poor communities -
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Great Society Legislation
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Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and Michael Herbert on August 20, 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-452, 78 Stat. 508, 42 U.S.C. § 2701) was central to Johnson's Great Society campaign and its War on Poverty. Implemented by the since disbanded Office of Economic Opportunity, the Act included several social programs to promote the health, education, and general welfare of the poor. -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 1965
is a major revision to federal housing policy in the United States which created the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and instituted several major expansion in federal housing programs. -
The National Foundations of the Arts and Humanities, 1965
AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States, and for other purposes. -
•Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
is a United States federal statute enacted April 11, 1965. The Act is an extensive statute which funds primary and secondary education, while explicitly forbidding the establishment of a national curriculum.[1] As mandated in the Act, the funds are authorized for professional development, instructional materials, resources to support educational programs, and parental involvement promotion. -
Medicare, 1965
Federal program that provides hospital visits for people over the age of 65. -
Medicaid, 1965
Federal program that provides low-cost health insurance to poor Americans of any age -
•Water Quality Act, 1965
October 2, 1965 President Johnson signs the Water Quality Act, preventing water pollution by requiring states to establish and enforce water quality standards for interstate waterways -
Immigration Act of 1965
Law that ended quotas for individual countries and replaced them with more flexible limits -
• The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, 1966
was enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic safety. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of initiative by the government in response to increasing number of cars and associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a period when the number of people killed. -
• Clean Water Restoration Act, 1966
Imposed a fine of $100 per day on any polluter who failed to submit reports required by the law.
