What percentage of patients at the most expensive New York hospitals were white?
97 per cent
41 per cent
20 per cent
What was the name of the organisation that President John F Kennedy created to support low income countries?
New Frontier
Executive Order
Peace Corps
What percentage of African American students attended four or more years of secondary school in 1960?
43 per cent
11 per cent
Who did President Kennedy appoint as a senior federal judge?
Martin Luther King
Thurgood Marshall
James Meredith
Which act provided cheap loans for developers to build better housing in urban areas?
1961 Housing Act
1961 Area Redevelopment Act
1965 Housing and Urban Development Act
In what year was Medicare expanded to include disabled people under the age of 65?
1965
1972
1966
Which of the following did the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act include?
The Higher Education Act
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Jobs Corps
What did the Head Start programme do?
Made standards of education across states the same
Provided universities with money to offer scholarships to poorer students
Enabled teachers to provide extra teaching to children from low income backgrounds
How much money did the federal government provide for Medicaid?
$1.5 billion
Half of what was needed
$10 billion
What caused President Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society programme to lose funding?
The Vietnam War
Rugged individualism
Medicare