1. QOTD 4/18
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

2. Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama

4. The Conservative Tide New Right Conservative Coalition Moral Majority
Focused on social issues
Roe v. Wade
Conservative Coalition
Business leaders, middle-class, Southern Dems, fundamentalist Christians
Moral Majority
Conservative religious organization that pushed social agenda

5. Reaganomics Reaganomics Budget Cuts Tax Cuts Increase defense spending
Mostly social programs
Tax Cuts
Supply-side economics (Less taxes gives people more money which spurs economy)
Mostly for wealthiest Americans (job creators, “trickle down”)
Increase defense spending
Doubled
National debt doubles by 1984

8. Iran Contra Scandal
1986 Americans learn Reagan had authorized sale of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages
Many officials later pardoned

10. Social Issues AIDS Epidemic
Many falsely attributed to homosexuals causing fear
America becoming more diverse
Surge of gay rights activism in late 80’s and 90’s
Cold War Ends 1992

12. New Democrats More “conservative liberals” Reforms welfare
Balances the federal budget
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Free trade between U.S., Mexico, and Canada
Cheaper goods, but transfer of jobs
Can’t have both

14. Impeachment
Lied under oath about having an inappropriate relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
Impeached in 1998
Acquitted by the Senate

15. 2000 Election Florida forced to recount votes
Goes to Supreme Court who stops recount in Bush v. Gore handing election to Bush; loses popular vote
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17. 9/11 How The Day Unfolded
Nearly 3,000 killed
War against Afghanistan begins October 2001
War against Iraq begins 2003

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= vsPbmUhwUtg