4.10 The New Frontier and Great Society

Due Today: Chapter 29

To what extent were the New Frontier and the Great Society a continuation of the spirit of reform similar to the New Deal and Progressivism?

Review questions:

How did the assassination of Kennedy usher in an era of disillusionment?
How did LBJ's Great Society seek to improve America? Was it successful?
In what ways was the environmental movement of the 60s and 70s similar to previous reform movements?
To what extent were the political actions of JFK and LBJ similar to those of FDR and the Progressive Presidents?

Use all of your notes from this chapter and the primary sources provided to fill out your evidence chart:

- Gallery: Why Nixon Created the EPA

- Timeline of the Modern Environmental Movement

- JFK New Frontier Speech

Share out at 10:30

Video clips and EQ: How did the Watergate Scandal shake an already fragile American confidence in the Vietnam era, and lead to disillusionment in the 1970s?

- Nixon's paranoia leads to scandal

- Nixon Resignation Speech

- Nixon's Farewell Speech

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