Domestic Issues: 1960 - Present US History

Immigration Context: Old Immigration New Immigration Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Immigration Act of 1924 New Policies: Immigration Act of 1965 – evens out quotas offering great opportunity to immigrants from Asia and Latin America Immigration Act of 1986 – gives illegal immigrants an opportunity to become a citizen or legal resident Map Current Events

Environment Context: Theodore Roosevelt Pollution Silent Spring by Rachel Carson New Policies: Clean Air Act of 1970 Clean Water Act of 1972 Endangered Species Act of 1973 Environmental Protection Agency Current Events Global Warming 1985 EPA Cuts?

Debates Over Government’s Role & Social Safety Net President Johnson & the liberal Great Society President Reagan & conservative Reaganomics

LBJ’s Great Society (Liberal) Context: FDR & New Deal 1950s Affluence? Great Society (War on Poverty) Policies: Civil Rights Medicare Medicaid Food Stamps Elementary and Secondary Education Act Impact Conservative Response

Reaganomics (Conservative) Context: 1970s Recession Globalization (2) De-Industrialization Service Jobs Oil Shocks Reagan’s View Policies: (CC #43 to 7:24) Tax Cuts (Trickle Down) De-Regulation Free Trade (NAFTA) Presidents H.W. Bush/Clinton Impact on Economics (2) Impact on Poverty Betts Video

Post It Explain one similarity and one difference in the economic policies of President Johnson (Great Society) and President Reagan (Reaganomics). Make sure to use examples.

Current Economic Issues Panic of 2008 and Government Response Bank Bailouts Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Greying of America: Social Security & Medicare Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Public Reaction Globalization

Immigration

Environment …There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund [dying]; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.… The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers [fishermen] no longer visited them, for all the fish had died. In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder [DDT] still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.…

Poverty

1970s Recession

Globalization

Globalization

1970s Oil Shocks – OPEC stopped shipping America oil so prices of oil (& everything else) skyrocket due to shortages

Reagan Tax Cuts

Trickle Down Economics

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Unemployment Declines

Income Inequality

Greying of America

Reaction to Obama

Globalization