The Great Society: a. included new health care, education, and urban development initiatives with the use of federal funds. b. established the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation. c. actually reduced federal power, as most of its programs were administered at the local level. d. was the derisive description applied by the conservative press to President Johnson's massive expansion of the federal government. e. A and B

E. A and B

Explanation:

The Great Society was a term coined and launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964-65. The term was used to present his internal agenda, in which it seeks to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.

The major spending of the programs addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation, housing amongst others poverty alleviation scheme during this period

Hence, Great society included new health care, education, and urban development initiatives with the use of federal funds, and also established the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation.

e. A and B

Explanation:

"The Great Society" is the name given to the series of programs that Lyndon B. Johnson implemented in the country in the period of 1964-1965. This followed Johnson's election after the assassination of President Kennedy. The programs were mostly designed to address the problems of poverty and racial injustice, and they focused on the areas of education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation.