1. Domestic Issues: 1960 - Present
US History

2. Immigration Context: Old Immigration New Immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Immigration Act of 1924
New Policies:
Immigration Act of 1965 – evens out quotas offering great opportunity to immigrants from Asia and Latin America
Immigration Act of 1986 – gives illegal immigrants an opportunity to become a citizen or legal resident
Map
Current Events

3. Environment Context: Theodore Roosevelt Pollution Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
New Policies:
Clean Air Act of 1970
Clean Water Act of 1972
Endangered Species Act of 1973
Environmental Protection Agency
Current Events
Global Warming
1985
EPA Cuts?

4. Debates Over Government’s Role & Social Safety Net
President Johnson & the liberal Great Society
President Reagan & conservative Reaganomics

5. LBJ’s Great Society (Liberal)
Context:
FDR & New Deal
1950s Affluence?
Great Society
(War on Poverty)
Policies:
Civil Rights
Medicare
Medicaid
Food Stamps
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Impact
Conservative Response

6. Reaganomics (Conservative)
Context:
1970s Recession
Globalization (2)
De-Industrialization
Service Jobs
Oil Shocks
Reagan’s View
Policies: (CC #43 to 7:24)
Tax Cuts (Trickle Down)
De-Regulation
Free Trade (NAFTA)
Presidents H.W. Bush/Clinton
Impact on Economics (2)
Impact on Poverty
Betts Video

7. Post It
Explain one similarity and one difference in the economic policies of President Johnson (Great Society) and President Reagan (Reaganomics). Make sure to use examples.

8. Current Economic Issues
Panic of 2008 and Government Response
Bank Bailouts
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Greying of America:
Social Security & Medicare
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
Public Reaction
Globalization

9. Immigration

10. Environment
…There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund [dying]; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.… The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless. Anglers [fishermen] no longer visited them, for all the fish had died. In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder [DDT] still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.…

11. Poverty

12. 1970s Recession

13. Globalization

14. Globalization

15. 1970s Oil Shocks – OPEC stopped shipping America oil so prices of oil (& everything else) skyrocket due to shortages

16. Reagan Tax Cuts

17. Trickle Down Economics

18. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

19. Unemployment Declines

20. Income Inequality

21. Greying of America

22. Reaction to Obama

23. Globalization