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| Reagan will introduce supply side economics, a reduction of taxes to encourage business expansion. |
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| a program to shift more responsibility to the states |
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| led by Jerry Falwell. the group was worried that they saw an eroding economy. |
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| president. led the conservatives. 1966 governor of california. |
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| "read my lips. no new taxes." |
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| a quote said by Bush that he later broke and became hated. pretty much. |
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| Workers will have to transform from production jobs to service jobs. For many this was hard and meant a much lower paying job. Union membership will also decline during this era. The country was also becoming more anti-union. President Reagan will fire air-traffic controls and replace all of them when they went on strike. Union had to make concessions to continue to hold jobs. Often workers took less money and workers were cut back. Farm workers will also continue to decrease. Many family farms will be replaced by cooperate farms during this era. US farms were producing more but will be hard hit by the global economic downturn of the 1980s. |
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| a roller coaster economy. |
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| The 1980s and 90s will be a time of boom and bust. Unemployment will be anywhere from 5.6% to 10.8%. Inflation was also a common problem during these years. Business bankruptcies will also be a common problem. Detroit will be one of the hardest hit cities with unemployment reaching 19%. The stock market will be affected also with a crash in 1987 with a 22.6% fall. This was twice the level of the crash that led to the Great Depression |
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| NC senator who attacked some forms of art as pornographic. |
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| Early conservative leader who promoted free play on market forces. |
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| Conservation had new support to a backlash of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Conservatives will push for limiting the size of government, reduce tax burden, and to cut back regulations on business. They said this would lead to individual initiative, and private enterprise. |
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| Reagan's Plan.a program to shift more responsibility to the states. This will come close to bankrupting a number of states as federal money will be cut from programs but programs were still expected to be carried out. Reagan on social issues will promote prayer in public school and was Anti-abortion. |
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| He was a black man who was savagely beaten by police officers a routine traffic stop. |
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| A fifth of the nation’s population growth will be from immigration. 40% from Asia and another 40% from Latin America. Many were fleeing their homeland. Vietnam, Cuba and Haiti will produce some of the largest number of immigrants. A few different immigration Acts will be passed to try to control illegal immigration and make for an easier. |
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| The birth rate will go up slightly in the late 1980s and 90s. Family dynamics will change as divorce rates will sky rocket to close to 50%. Single-family homes will reach a new high point of nearly 25%. |
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| Elderly people will make up the fasting growing age group in America. Their population will triple. The country will rise the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70. There was also concern about Social Security and the program had to be changed for it to survive. |
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| College students will be more numerous than ever before. Many students will focus on business careers and making money. When they graduated form school they became young urban professionals or “yuppies” who devoted themselves to upward mobility and material goods. |
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| The US in a changed world |
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| Communism will fall apart in the Soviet Union and the US will be the winner of the Cold War. The Middle East will also change and South Africa will end Apartheid. The United States will have to adjust to all of these changes. |
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| wanted to lesson tension between the US and USSR. He will start the new policies of perestroika (reconstructing the economy) and glasnost (openness). He will meet with both Reagan and Bush and sign a number of treaties to limit arms. |
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| in 78, Israel invades Lebanon to try to destroy the PLO. the US sends troops to try to stop the fighting. a Barracks will be bombed killing 241 men, and injuring more. |
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| and Iraq will invade Kuwait. The UN will condemn the invasion and impose sanctions on Iraq. In Mid Jan 1991 a 28-nation alliance struck at Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. The forces will quickly route the Iraqis but Bush was unwilling to go into Iraq and take down Saddam. He will retain power and be as strong as ever within a few years. |
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