chapter 30: the conservative ascendancy 1974-1987
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy
1974-1987
![Page 2: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
I. The Overextended Society
1970s
![Page 3: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
A. A Troubled Economy1. Stagflation
2. Oil embargo =a. Gas doubles
b. Rationing
c. Dept. of Energy – trickle effect?
d. Local gov’t
3. Outsourcing effects?
4. Women in the workforce
![Page 4: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
B. Sunbelt/Snowbelt
1. Population shifts – Why?
a. Sunbelt
b. Snowbelt/rustbelt
![Page 5: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
1. Nixon pardon
2. WIN?Effectiveness?
![Page 6: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
C. Jimmy Carter ( 1977-1981)
1. “Outsider”
2. Effects of deregulating airline industry
3. Banks
4. inflation
![Page 7: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Urban Politics1. Politics at the local level increased
2. AA politicians increased
3. Fiscal crisis of ’70sa. Politicians ineffective
b. Job programs ineffective
c. Affirmative Action = “reverse discrimination”
d. Conservatives endorse candidates who favored law-abiding, hard-working, tax-paying majority, not minorities, jobless and criminals
![Page 8: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Endangered Environment
1. Three Mile Island, Pa.
2. Love Canal, NY.
3. Florida Everglades
4. Silent Spring
5. Resultsa. Earth Day
b. Recycling
c. Decreased meat consumption
d. Personal gardens; organic
e. Environmental groups
![Page 9: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
II. The New Conservatism
30.2
![Page 10: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
II. The New Conservatism
A. The New Right1. “Moral majority”
2. Televangelists• Jerry Falwell
3. Jesse Helmsa. KKK, segregation,
tobacco companies, Watergate, pollution
b. MLK
c. Becomes Senator of North Carolina
![Page 11: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
B. Anti-ERA, Anti-abortion
1. Fora. Balanced budget
Amend.
b. School prayers
c. Death penalty
2. Against1. Gov’t funded day
care
2. Reforms establishing educational equity
3. Social services for battered women and single moms
4. ERA
![Page 12: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
C. Equal Rights Amendment
1. To end gender discrimination
2. Phyllis Schlafly
![Page 13: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
D. Roe v. Wade (1973)
1. Crime for state to allow abortions
2. Women have the right to choose
![Page 14: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
E. “The Me Decade”
1. Personal well-being
2. Emotional security
3. Therapy
4. Health and fitness
![Page 15: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
30.3: Adjusting to a New World
![Page 16: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
A. A Thaw in the Cold War1. Both US and SU’s economy suffering2. Deficit spending3. Nat’l debt
a. 1950 - $257 Bb. 1980 - $908 B
4. Late 1970sa. Decreased productivity, personal savings and skilled
workforceb. inflation
![Page 17: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
SALT II
1. Started with Ford, ended with Carter
2. Not ratified by US due to SU invasion of Afghanistan
![Page 18: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
B. Foreign Policy & “Moral Principles”
1. No economic support for violations of human rights
a. Brazil,b. Argentinac. Chiled. S. Africa
2. CIA reforms3. Camp David Accords4. Return of Panama
Canal 2000
![Page 19: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
C. Camp David Accords (1978)
1. Egypt recognizes Israel's rights to exist
2. Nobel Peace prize
3. Return of the Sinai Peninsula; stop settlements there but continue in other disputed areas
4. Sadat assassinated
Begin, Carter, el-Sadat
![Page 21: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
D. Iran Hostage Crisis
1. Shah Phalavi overthrow by fundamentalists
2. Led by Ayatollah Khomeini
3. US allows shah entry into US due to cancer treatment = hostage situation
Current: Ali Khamene’i
![Page 22: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
E. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
1. Landslide win
2. Supported by “moral majority” and Jesse Helms
3. Voter turn out – about 50%
![Page 23: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
30.4 Reagan
![Page 24: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
A. “The Great Communicator”1. From Illinois
2. Actor turned politician
3. anticommunist
4. Gov. of Californiaa. Decreased state welfare
b. Decreased state employees
c. Income on tax revenues shared w/local gov’t
d. Spoke out against student protesters during V. war
![Page 25: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
B. Reaganomics
1. Supply-side economicsa. Increase production by decreasing taxes and
deregulating industries
b. Consumers will then benefit from a greater supply of goods and services at lower prices.
c. Industry will then have more money to:i. Invest
ii. hire employees, therefore, putting more money into the economy
iii. Resulting in more people to tax on income
![Page 26: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
C. Economic Recovery Tax Act 1981
1. Decrease income and corporate taxes
2. Decrease max. tax on income from 70% to 50%
3. Decrease ma. Capital gains tax from 25% to 20%
4. No distinction between earned and unearned income (inheritance/gifting)
![Page 27: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
D. Methods of increasing productivity during the Reagan years
1. Decrease regulations on EPA standards, workplace safety and consumer protection
2. Deregulated industries, esp. car pollution standards
3. Develop reserved wildlife lands and wetlands
4. Encourage speculation in market trading (reality=corruption)
![Page 28: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
E. Reagan’s Recession, Recovery, & Fiscal Crisis
1. Highest debt ever! Rich are getting richer!
2. 1982 recession: Unemployment @ > 11%
3. National debt has tripleda. 1980 - $914 Billion
b. 1989 - $2.7 Trillion
c. Today - $11.896 trillion! ($42,000)
4. Interest on debt was 14% of federal budget; only allotted for 7%
5. We became the world’s biggest debtor nation
![Page 29: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
F. Reagan Doctrine
Instability in underdeveloped countries due to influence of the SU
![Page 30: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
G. Iran-Contra Scandal1. “Arms-for-hostage” deal
2. US selling arms to Iran so they can fight Iraq
3. US gives money to Nicaraguan Contras to help overthrow the Sandinistas
4. Violates the Boland Amendment – no aid to contras of Nicaragua
![Page 31: Chapter 30: The Conservative Ascendancy 1974-1987](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649eb65503460f94bbefe0/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
H. Collapse of Communism1. Mikhail Gorbachev (1985)
a. Economic and political reforms via glasnost and perestroika
b. Allowed for some capitalist practices
c. Stopped the arms race
d. Freed dissidents from prison
2. Wall falls on November 9, 1989
3. Gorbachev resigns Dec. 25, 1991