28.2 The New Frontier

Lesson Objective: To understand the goals of Kennedy’s Domestic Policy

Essential Question: What was controversial about Kennedy’s Domestic

reforms

Quiz 28.210/16

1. Kennedy had a popular mandate soon after being elected. (T/F)

2. Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called what?

3. What organization was established to provide volunteer assistance to developing nations?

4. The ____________ offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American Countries.

5. Who was arrested for the assassination of JFK?

Key Terms

• New Frontier• Mandate• Peace Corps• Alliance for Progress• Warren Commission

Key Dates

• November 22, 1963- Kennedy Assassinated• November 24, 1963- Lee Harvey Oswald killed

The land was ours before we were the land’s.

She was our land more than a hundred years

Before we were her people. She was ours

In Massachusetts, in Virginia,

But we were England’s, still colonials,

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,

Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Something we were withholding made us weak

Until we found out that it was ourselves

We were withholding from our land of living,

And forthwith found salvation in surrender.

Such as we were we gave ourselves outright

(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)

To the land vaguely realizing westward,

But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,

Such as she was, such as she would become.

Frost At Kennedy's Inauguration

The Camelot Years

• The Kennedy Mystique – Young, attractive, popular,

wealthy, Family– Celebrities, use of TV,

Glamorous, supportive press

• The Best and the Brightest – Advisors were best from

Academic fields and Business

The Promise of Progress• The New Frontier

– Promise of progress and prosperity • End of poverty

– Lack of a mandate– Define:

• Ended up not passing most of his plans• Economic Policy

– Deficit spending + tax cuts• Why?

– Mostly in defense • Modest domestic increases

• Peace Corps – Define:

• Alliance for Progress– Define:

• Race to the Moon– April 12, 1962- Soviet Yuri Gagarin 1st Man to

orbit Earth– Kennedy wants to land on moon by end of decade

• NASA- drastic increase in funding – Alan Sheppard first American in Space May 1961– Feb 20 1962- American John Glen orbits the earth. – July 20, 1969- Neil Armstrong First American to

walk on the moon

• What were the effects of the Space Race?• A New Domestic Agenda

– Proposed drastic changes to the way the country dealt with poverty/ support for Civil Rights

Tragedy in Dallas• November 22, 1963

– Dallas, Texas– Kennedy shot in head by Lee Harvey Oswald– Castro Supporter- spent time in Soviet Union – Oswald shot by Jack Ruby November 24th – Country stopped

• Warren Commission – 10 months and 26 volumes of testimony– Many don’t believe it is conclusive – Some is still classified– Conspiracy theories abound