the new right. objective: students will identify causes for the reagan revolution of 1980 in the new...
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Objective:
• Students will identify causes for the Reagan Revolution of 1980 in the New Conservative Movement of the late 70s.
I. The New Right
• The New Right– By the early seventies, a “New Right”
Movement emerged– This movement attempted to elect officials
that espoused both fiscally and socially conservative values
• Neoconservatism• “Traditional” Conservatism
I. The New Right
• Neoconservatism– Promotes interventionism in other countries – Accepts a limited, reduced Welfare State– Often in favor of socially conservative
initiatives• Prayer in schools• Pro-Life Movement• Legal Promotion of Traditional Gender Roles
I. The New Right
• “Traditional” Conservatism– Emphatic support of Free Market Principles– Decentralized Government – Lowering Debt– Often in favor of the same socially
conservative initiatives
I. The New Right
• Jesse Helms– Prominent Leader in the New Right– Neoconservative in most respects
• (1974) Opposed Busing• (1974) Introduced legislation to ban abortion in all
cases
II. Resurgence
• Defense of traditional gender roles– Phyllis Schlafly, the Positive Woman and the
STOP ERA Campaign– Opposition to Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Hyde Amendment (1976) • National Right to Life Committee
II. Resurgence
• Evangelicalism – Billy Graham, How to be Born Again (1977)– Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority (1979)
• “Pro-Family, Pro-Life, Pro-Defense, Pro-Israel”
– Pat Robertson