Mahone,+S.

1. According to President Johnson, why, in 1964, were we not yet a “Great Society?” -Three places in our society, the cities, the countryside, and the classrooms, faced problems that need to be solved.

2. With which of the following position’s on today’s society would President likely agree?

-We have achieved a “Great Society.”

3. Which of the following statements best connects Johnson’s “Great Society” to President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal?”

-The Great Society was created to solve problems created by the New Deal.

Task 2

_ __**November 3 Task**__
 * **Area of Concern ** || **Main Problems ** ||
 * **Cities (urban areas) ** || //city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States. // ||
 * **Countryside ** || //The water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe, are threatened with pollution.Green fields and dense forests are disappearing // ||
 * **Classrooms ** || //There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. // ||

__**18th Amendment:**__


 * The Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages.
 * The Volstead Act stated that "beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors" meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume. The Act also stated that owning any item designed to manufacture alcohol was illegal and it set specific fines and jail sentences for violating Prohibition.
 * The Volstead Act allowed alcohol consumption if it was prescribed by a doctor.
 * The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment, making alcohol once again legal.
 * 19th Amendment: **


 * Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
 * In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to be able to vote, though she was apparently too ill to actually cast a ballot.
 * Men didn't want woman to vote because:

__ · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Because man's place is in the army. __ __ · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it. __ __ · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them. __ __ · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms, and drums. __ __ · <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government. __

__** Eleanor Roosevelt: **__ __<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">** ﻿ ** __


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">﻿<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Eleanor Roosevelt has been called one of the 20th century's most influential women.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1945, Eleanor joined the NAACP board of directors.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">After Eleanor accepted, he declared himself the happiest man on earth. The couple were married on March 17, 1905.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1934, Eleanor coordinated a meeting between FDR and