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Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980

The Great Society

Explain why poverty became a national issue in an affluent America, what Johnson's Great Society did about it, and how the 1965 immigration law changed who came.

Topic 8.9 · 14 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Poverty in the affluent society
  2. 02Liberalism at high tide
  3. 03What the Great Society did
  4. 04The Immigration Act of 1965
  5. 05Results and arguments
  6. 06Worked examples
  7. 07Where students lose points
  8. 08On the exam

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