Monday April 23
Transcript of Monday April 23
Monday April 23
1. Discuss SCOTUS Chart
2. Great Society:
Video clips
Powerpoint facts
3. Vietnam Map
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
All Electronics Off & Away
Kindly move over a little gentlemen.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
Supreme Court decided many cases involving
controversial social, political, and religious issues.
Called the Warren Court after
Chief Justice Earl Warren, the
Supreme Court supported civil
rights, civil liberties, voting
rights, and personal privacy.
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The Warren Court ruled on many significant issues.
• Voter’s rights: “one man,
one vote” principle – Baker v
Carr and Reynolds v Simms
• Rights of the accused
To have a lawyer -
Gideon
To have a lawyer before
questioning - Escobedo
To be told about rights –
Miranda
Illegally gained evidence
excluded - Mapp
• Prayer in school – Engle v
Vitale
CASE &
BACKGROUND
DECISION SIGNIFICANCE
Baker v. Carr 1962 &
Reynolds v. Sims 1964
Apportionment.
Mapp v. Ohio 1961 Unlawfully seized evidence
excluded.
Gideon v. Wainwright 1963 Right to an attorney if
indigent.
Escobedo v. Illinois 1964 Attorney before questioning.
Miranda v. Arizona 1966 Right to be informed: no
more third degree.
Engle v. Vitale 1962 State cannot require prayer
in public schools.
Abington v. Schempp No Bible reading in school.
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TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
After Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President, he worked for the same goals Kennedy had championed.
Johnson was a seasoned politician who built consensus in Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Outlawed discrimination in voting, education, and public accommodations
• Established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to fight discrimination in hiring: EEOC
• Prohibited discrimination on the basis of a person’s sex in public accommodations and in hiring
o LBJ convinced Congress to pass a tax cut for the middle
class and wealthy: the top marginal rate was reduced from
90% to 71%.
o Top Margin now 35% = $$$ 18 TRILLION National debt.
o Keynesian Economics – deficit spending.
He also established the War on Poverty to promote job training, education, and health care for those in need.
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• LBJ had taught in a poor Texas town and recognized the value of education.
• War on Poverty:
– Headstart
– VISTA
– Job Corp
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Johnson used his
popularity to call
for a Great Society
that would end
poverty and racial
injustice and
provide
opportunity for
every child.
In the 1964
presidential
election,
President
Johnson won a
landslide.
An Electoral landslide
provides a mandate
from the electorate
(voters).
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Daisy Ad
• “I would remind
you that extremism
in the defense of
liberty is no vice.”
• How does this
contrast with
FDR’s Four
Freedom’s speech?
• Eisenhower’s Middle Way -
• Eisenhower said that no political system
can “…ignore hordes of people who
through no fault of their own suddenly
find themselves poverty stricken. . . . Mass
production has wrought great things in the
world, but it has created social problems
that cannot be possibly met under ideas
that were probably logical and sufficient in
1800.”
President Eisenhower penned to his brother, Edgar Newton
Eisenhower, on 8 November 1954: “Now it is true that I believe this
country is following a dangerous trend when it permits too great a
degree of centralization of governmental functions… I oppose this...
But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government
cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people
firmly believe should be undertaken by it... This is what I mean by my
constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any
political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment
insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would
not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny
splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.
Among them are H.L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a
few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or
business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they
are stupid.”Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, billionaire founder of the Hunt Oil Company, had often been a champion of
conservative causes. For background on Eisenhower's relations with Hunt see Galambos, Columbia
University, vol. X.
• Great Society
– SSI expanded: Medicaid
and Medicare
– Elementary and Secondary
Education Act
– Water Quality Act
– Clean Water Restoration
Act
Tuesday April 24
1. Fire Video: Add 3 Facts in complete sentences on the reverse side.
2. Great Society:
Powerpoint facts
3. Vietnam Map
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.” – Marcus Aurelius
All Electronics Off & Away
Kindly move over a little gentlemen.
• DDT to eliminate pests – mosquitos, etc.
Smog = smoke + fog