**Creator**:: [[Aaron Bopp]] **Source**:: [[course_US History from 1870]] - [[notes_1970's General Notes]] - [[Reagan]] - Lost in primary of 1976 - Won in 1980 by 9 mil votes - was positive while Carter was brow-beaten - Rise of new Right [[Rise of Modern Conservatism]] - Religious right/conservatism - wanted [[creationism]] and prayer in school - [[anti-liberalism]] - rejection of feminists movement - reaction to increased divorce, dual income homes - became coupled with anti-[[abortion]] - financial [[Conservatism]] - anti-communist - lower taxes and decreased regulation - First Term - Domestic policy - reagonomics - trickle-down/supply side [[economy|economics]] - Kansas from 2010-2017 - Businesses kept profits from cuts - teachers and public workers went without raises for years - state was extremely underfunded - transportation and healthcare decayed - if you cut taxes they will hire more and stop stagflation - budget cuts - tried to cut medicare and social security but they were far too popular - tried to cut subsidies but subsidized industries had supported his run - [[anti-liberalism]] - worked against unions - fought against [[abortion]] rights - cut funds to equal opportunity employment commission - Immediate recession in 1982 - overspending and cutting taxes - promised that cuts would lead to much but hey didn't - economy recovered because of tax hikes - foreign policy - anti-[[Communism]] - renewal of cold war - America "needed to defend itself" - Feared South American [[Communism]] - hoped to bankrupt [[Russia|USSR]] by forcing them to keep up - Election of 1984 - Mondale chose woman for VP - Reagan won off of economic recovery that had nothing to do with him - Second term - Half-hearted [[revolution]] - [[government|Govt]] grew, not shrink - welfare programs were not cut - Budget was never balanced and government spending tripled - did not ban [[abortion]] or require prayer in schools - supported gun laws after he was almost assasinated - these did not affect his popularity - iran-contra affair - CIA and Reagan trained anti-communist groups abraud - Violated ammendment specfically forbidding supporting the contras - McFarland got go ahead to negotiate with terrorists and break the treaty embargo - Spent most of the money to Contras not Iran - Reagan was not implicated and left office with high approval rating - 6 convictions - reagan and the [[Russia|soviet union]] - Gorbachev lead movement to decrease arms race and took the first steps towards peace - liberalized the media - brought hope to the people - allowed for private [[business]] - Economic Changes - Computer [[Revolution]] - [[America|Americans]] were spending a lot on a lot after stagflation - Debt and Stock Market Plunge - Black monday - Larger monetary loss than the [[great Depression]] but safety measures stopped the [[economy]] from colapsing - Decrease in banking regulation under [[Reagan]] allowed for risky investments that required [[government|govt]] bailouts - Social landscape - poor - affordable housing dissapeared - [[government|govt]] programs ended and were given over to private contractors - release of [[mental health]] patients from no longer [[government|govt]] funded hospitals and services - [[AIDS]] epidemic - blood related/transmitted - spreads through communities for years without people knowing - Very little information - started as [[Queer|gay]] [[disease]] - large stigma until 10 year old boy contracted it - people were very sick and their immune system wasn't working - people understood [[AIDS]] and HIV as synonymous - [[Reagan]] did not comment for years - [[War on Drugs]] - Began under [[Nixon]] - increased funding for DEA and other agencies - introduced minimum mandatory sentencing - Just Say No - increased sentencing from [[Nixon]] - Disproportionately affected minority communities and lead to mass incarceration - Election of 1988 - [[HW Bush]] was bipartisan vice-president of [[Reagan]] - made a fortune in oil - growing fears of national [[debt]] but Bush offered no tax hikes - Dukakis had no notable features - [[notes_1990's General Notes]]