1. New Frontier
Chapter 15: section 2

2. New Frontier “New Frontier”
Proposals to improve the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights

3. Domestic Programs Focused on poverty
President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Equal Pay Act: equal wages for “equal work”
Stimulating the Economy
Deficit spending: borrowing money to spend more than it receives in taxes
Tax cut for middle-class, increase for wealthy

4. Domestic Programs Civil Rights Space Timid approach
Introduced bill that prosecuted voting rights violations and money to desegregate schools
Space
“Space Race”
Competition between US and Soviets to get to the moon
Committed to landing man on moon by 1970
Neil Armstrong lands July of 1969

5. Assignment
P. 515 #1, 3, 5
Quiz tomorrow