1070 ★ CHAPTER 26 The Triumph of Conservatism
- What were the major causes for the decline of the U.S. economy in the 1970s?
- What were the causes and consequences of the public’s disillusionment with the federal
government in the 1970s and 1980s? - Identify the groups and their agendas that combined to create the new conservative base in
the 1970s and 1980s. - What impact did Ronald Reagan have on the American political scene?
- Why was there growth in economic inequality in the 1980s?
- How did various groups see the relationship between women’s rights and freedom
differently?
KEY TERMS
affirmative action (p. 1033)
busing (p. 1035)
reverse discrimination (p. 1035)
Title IX (p. 1037)
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(p. 1038)
détente (p. 1038)
My Lai massacre (p. 1040)
Pentagon Papers (p. 1040)
War Powers Act (p. 1040)
Vietnam Syndrome (p. 1041)
Watergate (p. 1041)oil embargo (p. 1044)
stagflation (p. 1045)
deindustrialization (p. 1046)
Sunbelt (p. 1046)
Helsinki Accords (p. 1047)
deregulation (p. 1048)
Three Mile Island (p. 1049)
Camp David Accords (p. 1050)
neoconservatives (p. 1052)
Reagan Revolution (p. 1058)
Reaganomics (p. 1062)
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