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Election of 1980
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Liberalism in America Believe that government should regulate the economy to protect people from large corporations Federal government should take a role in disadvantaged Americans
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Liberalism in America This should be done by putting a tax burden on wealthy Americans What is the name of the group that supports this? Liberals
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The Conservative Movement Builds
Many Americans resent the cost of federal entitlement programs Programs that guaranteed and provided benefits to particular groups
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The conservative Movement Builds
What is the name of the group that generally opposes higher taxes? Conservatives 1955 National Review a conservative magazine was founded by? William F. Buckley
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The New Right As 1970 progressed right wing grass roots groups emerged
To support single issues that reflected their key interests Focused its energy on controversial social issues, especially Affirmative Action Policy giving preferences in hiring and admission to minority groups
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The Conservative Coalition
Alliance of business leaders, middle class voters, disaffected Democrats, and fundamentalist Christian groups Voices were heard in Newspapers and conservative think tanks
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The Moral Majority Religion, especially evangelical Christianity
Played a large role in growing strength of conservatives Who founded the Moral Majority? Jerry Falwell
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Moral Majority Television allowed ministers to reach a large nationwide audience What were they called? Televangelists
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Moral Majority Pushed for a return in “family values” reduce
Divorce rates Out of wedlock births Bring back individual responsibility And patriotic times
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Conservatives Win Political Power
Ronald Reagan won the nomination for president in 1980 Choose George Bush as his running mate
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Reagan’s Qualifications
Originally a New Deal Democrat Became a conservative during the 1950s Two-term governor of California ( )
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Presidential Election
Question asked by Ronald Reagan during the debate with President Carter? Are you better off than you were four years ago? What were the issues Reagan ran on? End communism, rebuild military, and cut taxes
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The Great Communicator
Reagan wins in a landslide 51% of popular vote 44 states 489 electoral votes First time since 1954 Republicans gain control of the Senate Works to translate conservative agenda
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1980
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Supply Side Economics To get the economy moving again, Reagan focused on getting more money into the economy: Cut taxes Lower Interest rates Reaganomics rested heavily on supply-side economics Theory of cutting taxes would give people incentive to work, save and invest more
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LGM-118A Peacekeeper Originally known as the MX for Missile eXperimental. Intercontinental ballistic missile. The MX could carry up to 10 re-entry vehicles, each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead/MK-21 RVs (twenty times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.)
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B-1 Lancer Strategic long-range bomber used by the US Air Force.
Developed as a primarily low-level penetrator with long range and supersonic speed capability.
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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Created by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. It was soon derided as Star Wars, after the popular 1977 film.
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Recession and Recovery
The economy went into a severe recession from July 1981 until November 1982 Worst since the Great Depression 1983 Economy boomed because of reduced taxes and lower interest rates
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Sandra Day O’Connor The first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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Conservative Court Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy
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Clarence Thomas President Bush nominated to Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall in 1991 Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought. Key accusations that he had made sexually harassing comments to attorney Anita Hill. Thomas was ultimately confirmed by a vote of 52–48.
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Election of 1984
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Democrat Ticket - 1984 Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro
Carter VP from Minnesota Geraldine Ferraro 1ST woman on major party ticket
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Landslide for Reagan
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Election of 1988
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Ooooops... A former two-term senator from Colorado, the married Gary Hart's bid to become the Democratic nominee in the Presidential election of 1988 was derailed after The Miami Herald printed photographs of him aboard a yacht—aptly named Monkey Business—with 29-year-old model Donna Rice. “Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'll be very bored.“ – Gary Hart
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Republicans - 1988 George HW Bush VP for 8 years under Reagan
Former head of CIA Former ambassador to China and UN WW II Fighter pilot
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Democrats Michael Dukakis beat out Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden to win the nomination. Chose Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as VP candidate. Attacked for being soft on crime and unpatriotic.
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Presidential Election of 1988
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