1. Reaganomics
4/5/18 Thursday

2. Activator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =cDWKEHbBh4g
Answer the questions during this video. Pay CLOSE attention

3. Gas lines and gas rationing in the 1970s
1970s Economy
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Image on the right retrieved the National Archives at:
Gas lines and gas rationing in the 1970s

4. Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
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Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States

5. Ronald Reagan in a televised address about his tax plan, July 1981
Reaganomics
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Ronald Reagan in a televised address about his tax plan, July 1981

6. Reagan’s Legacy Cartoon by Herbert Block, 1981
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Cartoon by Herbert Block, 1981
Cartoon by Cox and Forkum, 2004

7. Central Historical Question
Were Reaganomics good for the United States?

8. For Today
You will work in 4 separate groups do read an analyze the documents provided
You can read the documents individually, in pairs, or as a group.
Be ready to share out
You will be debating this tomorrow.

9. Processing
Based on what you have read today, do you believe Reaganomics was positive or negative?
Answer on the back page
Turn and talk.

10. HW- Write this down
Find TWO outside sources that shoe how Reaganomics both HURT and HELPED the United States.
Write your responses on a separate piece of paper and staple it to the back of your work from today
They can be online or text based.
Provide THREE quotes from each source and bring the quotes in tomorrow.
You do not have to print the source. But be sure to have it available if we are to look it up.