Study Guide
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Conservatism and a Shift in Course, 1980-2010
1. Regan era and middle class incomes
2. conservative view of government
3. “voodoo economics”
4. Rainbow Coalition
5. The Moral Majority
6. Jerry Falwell
7. “spin doctors”
8. Republican control of the Senate
9. Reagan administration and “sleaze”
10. Geraldine Ferraro
11. Walter Mondale
12. 1988 “mudslinging” campaign of George Bush
13. Bush I and Persian Gulf War
14. Supply-side economic theory
15. Reagan and federal tax rate
16. Beneficiaries of Reagan tax policy
17. Reagan administration and military budgets
18. Reagan’s “New Federalism”
19. Reagan and the welfare state
20. Savings and loan crisis
21. Gap between rich and poor during Reagan administration
22. Reagan and Bush position on abortion
23. 1992 Los Angeles riot
24. Planned Parenthood v Casey
25. U.S. and position as world’s industrial leader
26. Air Traffic Controllers Organization
27. Trade union membership in the 1980s
28. fate of the American farmer
29. Economic recession of 1980-82 and public services
30. Impact if the internet
31. APRANET
32. U.S. population in 1990
33. Ethnic make-up of the U.S. in 1990
34. Latino high school graduation rate
35. Growth of sun-belt states in 1980s
36. Mikhail Gorbachav
37. Collapse of the Soviet Union
38. Reagan foreign policy
39. El Salvador and FMLN
40. Nicaragua and Sandinista Revolution
41. Iran Contra scandal
42. “plausible deniability”
43. Reagan as “Teflon” president
44. Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait
45. Reagan policy in Latin America
46. Manuel Noriega
47. Milton Friedman
48. Jesse Helms
49. Hoover Institution
50. Nelson Mandela
51. The Garretts
52. Immigrations Act of 1965
53. Immigration Act of 1990
54. Renewed economic growth in 1990s
55. 1998 budget surplus
56. Homlessness
57. Improvements in medicine
58. Young workers in the 1990s
59. African Americans during the 1990s
60. Race relations and multiracial advisory panel
61. Candidates in 1992 election
62. 1992 campaigns and television
63. Clinton and healthcare
64. NAFTA
65. Slobodon Milosevic
66. Dayton accords
67. The Congressional Elections of 1994
68. Newt Gingrich
69. The Republican Contract with America
70. Election of 1996
71. Clinton impeachment
72. Clinton achievements
73. Clinton approval ratings
74. Election of 2000
75. The vote tally
76. September 11, 2001
77. California Prop 187
78. Population growth
79. Corporate mergers
80. AIDS
81. Bob Dole and Viagra
82. Bush and Privatization of Social Security
83. Ronald Reagan’s last years