QOD 5/6 Why do you think President Kennedy called his domestic program the “New Frontier”?
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QOD 5/6
• Why do you think President Kennedy called his domestic program the “New Frontier”?
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Kennedy’s New Frontier
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New Frontier
• Name of Kennedy’s domestic program
• Why given this name?
• Wanted to improve:– Economy -Start Space program– Education– Healthcare– Civil Rights
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Poverty
• After reading book,
The Other America,
Kennedy wanted to focus
on poverty in USA
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Poverty
• To help with poverty, he:– Increased minimum wage– Extended Social Security benefits– Improved the welfare system– Helped to pass the Equal Pay Act (1963),
equal pay for equal work between men and women
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Fixing the Economy
• Wanted to fix American’s sluggish economy of high unemployment of early 60s:– Tax credits to businesses– Increased military spending = new jobs– Deficit spending- gov’t borrows money to
spend more than receives in taxes to boost economy - leads to tax cuts for lower and middle classes (put $ in people’s pockets)
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Civil Rights
• Pursued civil rights cautiously
• 1963 (violence in Birmingham) influenced Kennedy to pursue Civil Rights Bill
• Passed in 1964 by LBJ after Kennedy’s assassination
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Space Race
• Race between Soviets and USA to land on the moon
• Kennedy wanted US to land a man on the moon by 1970
• July, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first American astronaut to step on the moon
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Kennedy Assassinated
• November, 1963- Traveled to Dallas to campaign for ’64 election
• Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald
• Warren Commission: Did Oswald work alone? Official investigation found that Oswald was the “lone killer”
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