1. The Conservative Movement Grows
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The Conservative Movement Grows

2. The Conservative Movement Grows
1980: Ronald Reagan, conservative hero was named President.

3. Two View: Liberal and Conservative
Democrats labeled: liberals
Republicans labeled: conservatives
Liberals: favored government intervention to help the needy.
Conservatives: allowing the free market, private organizations, and individuals help.
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4. Liberals
believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all.
duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights.
role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need.
Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for the government to solve problems.

5. Conservatives
believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense.
Large central government endangered economic growth and individual choice.
role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals.
policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems.

6. The Conservative Movement Gains Strength
The New Right: growing conservative movement was called. Coalition of several different groups with varying ideas and goals.

7. Liberalism Loses Its Appeal
Stagnating economy
Vietnam war and urban riots of 1960s divided the same people who had rallied around Presidents Johnsons vision of the Great Society.

8. New Right Criticizes Liberal Programs
Conservatives believed:
liberal policies were responsible for stagflation and economic problems.
Govt taxed citizens and businesses too heavily
Spent to much on wrong programs
Unfunded mandates
Criticized welfare programs
Sagebrush rebels: believed the fed govt controlled to much land in the western states. States should control land

9. Religious Participation Rises
Moral Majority: founder> Jerry Falwell
Worried about decline of the traditional family.
Engel V. Vitale
Forbade religious teachings in schools
Roe V. Wade
which recognized that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to make her own personal medical decisions — including the decision to have an abortion without interference from politicians.

10. Population Trends Boost Conservatism
When an increasing number of Americans moved to the suburbs their attachment to liberalism waned as they struggled financially.

11. Reagan Wins Presidency
1980 Presidential
Oppose big government
Strong military supporter
Traditional values

12. Reagans Path to the White House/Reagan Wins a Close Election
Suffered hardships during depression
Low budget actor
CA governor
Won verse Jimmy Carter
Reagan, aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, won the election by a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate.
Aged 69 at the time, Reagan became the oldest person to ever take the Oval Office, a record that was surpassed 36 years later by Donald Trump, aged 70.