The Economic Opportunity Act was part of which broad policy emphasis in the 1960s?

• A. War on Poverty
• B. New Deal
• C. Reaganomics
• D. Monetary tightening

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that the Economic Opportunity Act was a centerpiece of the War on Poverty, the 1960s push to reduce poverty through federal programs under Johnson’s Great Society. The act established the Office of Economic Opportunity and funded initiatives like Head Start, Job Corps, VISTA, and Community Action Agencies, all aimed at giving low-income Americans opportunities for education, work, and greater participation in their communities. This focus on directly addressing poverty through expansive federal programs is what defines the 1960s War on Poverty.

The other options don’t fit because they belong to different times or approaches: the New Deal was a 1930s response to the Great Depression; Reaganomics refers to 1980s tax cuts and deregulation; monetary tightening is a monetary policy approach, not the broad anti-poverty policy emphasis tied to the 1960s.