1. April 18, 2019
University High APUSH

2. President Reagan and Domestic Policy
APUSH Period 9

3. Part of Jerry Falwell’s 1980 speech
What group of people is Falwell attempting to convince of his point? What is he trying to convince them?
Many people consider the rise of conservatism in the late 1970’s and 1980’s as backlash to the liberalism from the 1960’s and 1970’s. What evidence of that theory is present in this excerpt?
How does this message relate to the beliefs of the Puritans in 17th century New England?

4. What is Supply Side Economics and Does Supply Side Economics work?
We’ll examine 2 perspectives Note: Sometimes called ‘Reaganomics’, ‘Trickle-down Economics’, or ‘Voodoo Economics’

5. Opposition to Supply-Side Economics
For your assigned graph:
What is the main point being made by this graph?
In what way(s) might this graph be misleading?
What additional data might you want in order to evaluate whether supply-side economics is effective or not?

7. Assigned Questions: Socratic Smackdown Thursday, 4/25
What were the causes and effects of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s?
How did foreign policy evolve as the Cold War ended and the United States transitioned into a post-Cold War world? (1980s-1990s)
What forces drove the economic resurgence of the 1990s?
What cultural conflicts emerged in the 1990sand what impact did they have?
How was American freedom defined at the end of the twentieth century?