1. Election of 1980

2. Liberalism in America
Believe that government should regulate the economy to protect people from large corporations
Federal government should take a role in disadvantaged Americans

3. Liberalism in America
This should be done by putting a tax burden on wealthy Americans
What is the name of the group that supports this?
Liberals

4. The Conservative Movement Builds
Many Americans resent the cost of federal entitlement programs
Programs that guaranteed and provided benefits to particular groups

5. The conservative Movement Builds
What is the name of the group that generally opposes higher taxes?
Conservatives
1955 National Review a conservative magazine was founded by?
William F. Buckley

6. The New Right As 1970 progressed right wing grass roots groups emerged
To support single issues that reflected their key interests
Focused its energy on controversial social issues, especially Affirmative Action
Policy giving preferences in hiring and admission to minority groups

7. The Conservative Coalition
Alliance of business leaders, middle class voters, disaffected Democrats, and fundamentalist Christian groups
Voices were heard in Newspapers and conservative think tanks

8. The Moral Majority Religion, especially evangelical Christianity
Played a large role in growing strength of conservatives
Who founded the Moral Majority?
Jerry Falwell

9. Moral Majority
Television allowed ministers to reach a large nationwide audience
What were they called? Televangelists

10. Moral Majority Pushed for a return in “family values” reduce
Divorce rates
Out of wedlock births
Bring back individual responsibility
And patriotic times

11. Conservatives Win Political Power
Ronald Reagan won the nomination for president in 1980
Choose George Bush as his running mate

12. Reagan’s Qualifications
Originally a New Deal Democrat
Became a conservative during the 1950s
Two-term governor of California ( )

13. Presidential Election
Question asked by Ronald Reagan during the debate with President Carter?
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
What were the issues Reagan ran on?
End communism, rebuild military, and cut taxes

14. The Great Communicator
Reagan wins in a landslide
51% of popular vote
44 states
489 electoral votes
First time since 1954 Republicans gain control of the Senate
Works to translate conservative agenda

15. 1980

16. Supply Side Economics
To get the economy moving again, Reagan focused on getting more money into the economy:
Cut taxes
Lower Interest rates
Reaganomics rested heavily on supply-side economics
Theory of cutting taxes would give people incentive to work, save and invest more

17. LGM-118A Peacekeeper
Originally known as the MX for Missile eXperimental.
Intercontinental ballistic missile.
The MX could carry up to 10 re-entry vehicles, each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead/MK-21 RVs (twenty times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.)

18. B-1 Lancer Strategic long-range bomber used by the US Air Force.
Developed as a primarily low-level penetrator with long range and supersonic speed capability.

19. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Created by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
It was soon derided as Star Wars, after the popular 1977 film.

21. Recession and Recovery
The economy went into a severe recession from July 1981 until November 1982
Worst since the Great Depression
1983 Economy boomed because of reduced taxes and lower interest rates

22. Sandra Day O’Connor
The first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006.
O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

23. Conservative Court
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy

24. Clarence Thomas
President Bush nominated to Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall in 1991
Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought.
Key accusations that he had made sexually harassing comments to attorney Anita Hill.
Thomas was ultimately confirmed by a vote of 52–48.

25. Election of 1984

26. Democrat Ticket - 1984 Walter Mondale Geraldine Ferraro
Carter VP from Minnesota
Geraldine Ferraro
1ST woman on major party ticket

28. Landslide for
Reagan

29. Election of 1988

30. Ooooops...
A former two-term senator from Colorado, the married Gary Hart's bid to become the Democratic nominee in the Presidential election of 1988 was derailed after The Miami Herald printed photographs of him aboard a yacht—aptly named Monkey Business—with 29-year-old model Donna Rice.
“Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'll be very bored.“ – Gary Hart

31. Republicans - 1988 George HW Bush VP for 8 years under Reagan
Former head of CIA
Former ambassador to China and UN
WW II Fighter pilot

32. Democrats
Michael Dukakis beat out Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden to win the nomination.
Chose Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas as VP candidate.
Attacked for being soft on crime and unpatriotic.

33. Presidential Election of 1988