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.


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.


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.


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.

• LBJ had taught in a poor Texas town and recognized the value of education.

• War on Poverty:

– Headstart

– VISTA

– Job Corp


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).


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

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