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Chapter 29

Chapter 29

  • A new fictional charac ter appeared on national television.
  • Suburban and urban crisis.
  • Archie Jimmy Carter: The Outsider was a conservative, hardscrabble view of the world.
  • His significance went beyond politics.
    • Archie's modest home in Queens, New The Women's Movement and York was brought about by his feminist daughter, liberal son-in-law and black Civil Rights in a New Era neighbors.
    • Archie was not the only one who was resistant to change.
    • The Gay Rights middle-of-the-road people faced the aftermath of the tumultuous late 1960s and After the Warren Court.
    • Americans were challenged to think in new ways about race, gender roles, sexual morality, and the family.
    • It wasn't clear what would take its place.
  • The country faced eco of Deindustrialization nomic setbacks as a result of cultural dislocation and political alienation.
  • Economic growth slowed after the World War II.
    • Fuel shortages were caused by an energy crisis and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
    • The Fourth Great Awakening manufacturing brought less expensive and more reliable goods into the U.S. in the 1970s.
  • More American plants closed.
    • Since World War II, the United States has enjoyed a great economic ride.
  • The period between the energy crisis and the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency is known as the collective national search for order in the midst of economic crisis, political realignment, and rapid social change.
    • Cold War liberalism, rising living standards, and the nuclear family had come under question, and most agreed on the need to act.
    • For some, this search required new forms of experimentation.
  • It led to the conservatism of the New Right.
  • Women expanded their role in national life in the 70s as American society underwent dramatic changes.
    • Donna Wright was the only woman working at the Blue Ribbon Mine in 1979.
  • An Era of Limits became heavily dependent on inexpensive imported oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf, in the 1980's.
    • The economic downturn of the early 1970s was can and European oil companies discovered and the deepest slump since the Great Depression.
    • When the Middle Eastern fields were developed early in the 20th century, employment, productivity, and tieth century turned negative, and the British and French empire took over.
    • Middle Eastern was going through a rough patch.
    • Inflation, brought on in part by mili states threw off the remnants of European colonialism, made it difficult for them to demand concessions for access to the fields.
  • When the Middle East embargo cut oil supplies, prices went up even more.
    • Productivity growth was low until 1982, and unemployment was high under profit-sharing agreements.
  • Between 1967 and 1973.
    • The toxic effects of modern Israel's victory in the Six-Day War on the natural world were brought to light.
    • Several major cities verged on bank each year as the urban tensions in the region grew closer to boiling over.
    • Syria invaded Israel to regain territory lost in the 1967 conflict, and political limits were reached as well.
    • Each spent years trying to get their economy back on track, but Israel prevailed.
  • The oil embargo was declared by the Arab states in response to the Energy Crisis.
    • Modern economies have gas prices that run on oil.
    • The United States jumped by 40 percent if the oil supply is reduced.
    • heating oil prices went up by 30 percent.
    • Demand was higher in the United States in the 1970s.
  • The West's vulnerability was revealed when oil became a political weapon.
  • In the face of the oil shortage, the United States scrambled to meet its energy needs.
    • Congress imposed a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour in order to conserve fuel.
    • Americans began to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars such as Volkswagens, Toyotas, and Datsuns -- while sales of Detroit-made cars (now nicknamed "gas guzzlers") slumped.
    • One of every six jobs in the country is generated directly or indirectly by the auto industry.
    • In 1974 alone, the prices of basic necessities, such as bread, milk, and canned goods, rose by nearly 20 percent because of the inflation set off by the oil shortage.
  • The movement's histori plants and wildlife were extended in Florida in the 1970s.
  • Congress 1960s was the year when the cession of galvanizing developments followed on the heels of the Santa Barbara oil spill.
    • The National Environmental Policy Act would have flooded the Grand Canyon if it had been passed.
  • The 1970s saw the emergence of the environmental movement in the United States.
    • The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was signed by Republican pres ident Richard Nixon.
  • The following documents give a range of perspectives on an important social and political move.
  • For the first time in the history of the world, every human new financing method for purchasing open space and being is now subjected to contact with dangerous parklands before they are lost to us.
  • The air is polluted by the automobile.
    • Synthetic pesticides quate control requires further advances in engine design, which has been distributed throughout the and fuel composition.
    • We will intensify our research and strengthen enforcement in the world.
    • We will do it now that they have been recovered from most procedures.
  • We can't afford to think about air and water flowing unseen through the earth.
  • It is a violence that has different impacts, styles and time factors than the more primitive types of violence such as crime in the streets.
    • In the size of the population exposed and the seriousness of the harm done, environmental violence is far more serious than street crime.
  • To deal with a system of oppression and suppression, the first priority is to deprive the polluters of their legitimacy.
  • I propose a $10 billion nationwide clean waters program to put modern municipal waste treatment plants in every place in America where they are needed to make our waters clean again.
  • Our cities and suburbs are growing.
  • Unless we preserve these spaces, NASA.
  • Our society is so good that nothing could be more misleading to our children.
    • The standards, politics, and economics of the 1960s are dead in a world they will inherit.
    • The United States is the most powerful nation in the world and its largest consumer.
    • We may be destroyed tomorrow by the events leading to famine.
  • Our position requires us to take immediate action at home.
    • If voluntary methods fail, we must have population control at home through a system of incentives and penalties.
    • We need to use our political power to push other countries into programs that combine agricultural development and population control.
    • Before population pressure permanently ruins our planet, we must reverse the degradation of our environment.

What are the differences in this state?

  • One of the first photographs of the earth was taken from space.
  • You can use what you have learned about the environmental movement in this chapter and the documents above to make a historical argument about the origins of the movement, the issues that it raised, and the opposition that developed.
  • The Clean Air Act was one of the new laws that followed the liberal state and the age of liberty.
    • The Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 and the Endan competition from West Germany and Japan were some of the things the country faced in the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970.
  • The prediction was not correct.
  • Many of their workers believed that the postindustrial-service one had been tightened.
    • Their jobs were threatened by that transformation.
    • "If you're hungry, means that the United States and out of work, eat an environmentalist," read the sign.
    • By the 1980s, TVs and more financial services, health-care mentalism and management consulting services divided Americans, not to mention millions of low-paying jobs.
  • Prices were not supposed to rise in a stagnant power-generating nuclear technology in the 1950s, as Americans had greeted the arrival of mists.
    • Forty-two flation meant a noticeable decline in purchasing power, nuclear power plants, and a hundred more planned by the U.S. utility companies.
  • Unlike coal- or oil-driven plants, nuclear dents of the decade, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and operations produced no air pollutants.
  • Jimmy Carter had a lot of luck.
  • Nixon's New Economic Policy was one of the most gers of nuclear power plants.
    • Wage controls were imposed in 1971 in an effort to curb inflation after Nixon imposed a temporary price.
  • Tens of thousands of people fled their homes.
  • A prompt shutdown saved the plant, but the near catas remained.
    • Ford had little success.
    • TheWIN campaign urged Americans to stop using nuclear energy.
    • After the incident at Three Mile to cut food waste and do more with less, a noble but Island, no new nuclear plants were authorized, though deeply unpopular idea among the American public.
  • Nuclear reactor accounts for 20 percent of this chapter.
    • The United States is fourth in the world in terms of power generation, but fifth in terms of search for a new economic order.
  • The economy began to be dismantled in addition to the energy crisis.
    • There were a lot of long-term problems.
    • The economy's crown jewel was the steel industry, which for seventy-five years had ing on the Vietnam War and the Great Society.

  • This figure shows the impact of the oil crisis on the inflation rate.
    • The inflation rate went up to 14 percent in 1980 after a sharp recession that began in 1974.
    • The return to normal levels after 1980 was the result of very harsh measures by the Federal Reserve Board, which resulted in a painful slowdown in the economy.
  • U.S. steel producers enjoyed an open market during War II.
    • There was no incentive to replace outdated plants and equipment.
    • West Germany and Japan rebuilt their steel industries with the latest technology.
    • The American industry was overwhelmed by foreign steel during the 1970s.
    • The Pittsburgh region lost its heavy industry in a single generation as titanic steel companies began a massive dismantling.
    • The 1970s and 1980s were hard times for American industry.
    • Many of the nation's once-proud core industries, such as steel, declined in these decades.
    • The steel mill in Pittsburgh was demolished in 1982.
    • Pittsburgh was once the center of American steel production.
    • The creation of the Rust Belt in the Northeast and Midwest was the result of such closures.
  • The steelworkers were left without work when the trial base was shut down in 1977.
    • Steel was not the only one.
  • The automobile, tire, textile, and other con cent had found local work, but mostly in low-paying, sumerdurable industries.
  • The growth of the Sunbelt was one of the most significant developments of the post-World War II era.
    • The South and Southwest experienced an economic boom in the 1950s because of federal spending for military bases, the defense industry, and the space program.
    • The growth was further enhanced in the 1970s as migrants from the Rust Belt headed to the South and West in search of jobs, as the heavily industrialized regions of the Northeast and Midwest declined.
  • Facing huge price inflation and mounting piles of California workers, like hundreds of thousands of their debt -- to finance social services for the poor and counterparts across the nation, had fallen from their to replace disappearing tax revenue -- nearly every perch in the middle class.
  • The post central cities were surrounded by prosperous postwar suburbs and the labor movement.
  • New York, the nation's financial capital and its as inflation hit, had the highest number of strikes in the early 1970s.
    • In 1970 it had an annual budget that was larger than that alone.
    • Industry argued that it couldn't do most states.
  • The "era of lim accord of the 1950s, which raised profits and wages by bankruptcy was a real possibility," was how New York neared in bond market.
  • Instead of seeking higher wages, unions appealed to the federal government to save jobs.
    • President Ford refused to allow union membership to go into decline.
    • Since the 1920s, the federal government has been the solution to fresh appeals than 18 percent of American workers.
    • The impact on liberal politics would lend money to New York.
    • The coalition was collapsing.
  • New York City almost went bankrupt in the summer of 1975.
    • The newspaper headlines captured Gerald Ford's response when Mayor Abraham Beame asked for help.
  • The city's brush with insolvency symbolized the larger problems facing the nation: economic stagnation, high inflation, and unemployment.
    • No one was spared from the hard times.
  • Most major economic indicators in the United States turned downward in the 1970s, as the long postwar expansion ground to an unmistakable halt.
    • Evidence of how developments in the United States compared with other industrialized countries can be found in the fig the Seventies ures.
  • Japan's GDP growth was strong in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • The residents worked in the suburbs.
    • 13 million people moved to the suburbs in the 50s and 70s, 6 percent of the total population.
    • A new suburban ban home was replaced by the engineer, teacher, shopping centers opened weekly across the country, nurse, student, and carpenter who lived in one suburb and worked in another.
  • 78 percent of New York's suburban example was California.
  • While liberals were on the defensive, retirees and others on fixed incomes faced high tax bills.
    • The dire situa tives did not yet have a clear alternative.
  • The spokesman for the House dismissed the episode as a third nation's most populous state.
    • The two masterminds were second only to Mississippi.
    • Middle-class and former FBI and CIA agents currently working for wealthy home owners at the expense of less-well-off cit Nixon's Committee to Re-elect were beneficiaries of 13's complicated formula.
  • Businesses came out ahead because com was part of a pattern of abuse of power by a mercial property and the White House was obsessed with its enemies.
    • Hunt was on the White House payroll, part of a clan revolts across the country and helped conservatives stop leaks to the press.
    • They define an enduring issue as low taxes.
  • Nixon's siege mentality is what explains the decline in income inequality.
    • He could have distanced himself from the 1970s, when the trend reversed, and the wealthiest Ameri the break-in by firing his guilty aides or even just by let cans, those among the top 10 percent began to pull ting justice take its course.
    • It was election time again.
    • As corporations restructured to boost Nixon's political future, they began to lay egy.
    • Instead, he paid the remaining workers and instructed the CIA to stop the FBI investigation less, and relocated overseas.
    • The obstruction of justice was a benefit to the crimi cans.
  • Early in 1973, one of the Watergate burglars began to talk.
  • The middle of the Senate was squeezed smaller in May 1973.
  • National politics were characterized by a search for order.
    • It is certain of being convicted by the 1970s.
    • The scandal began.
    • Nixon became the first ior of politics on August 9, 1974.
    • What became known is that the U.S. president resigned.
    • President Gerald Ford took the oath of office.
    • President Richard Nixon was implicated in illegal behavior by the Republican minority leader in the House of Rep severe enough to bring down his presidency.
  • The Modern State and the Age of Liberty, 1945-1980, who had himself resigned in 1973, accepted the kick Activities Committee, which had investigated backs while he was governor of Maryland.
    • Ford stunned the nation by granting Nixon war activists in the 1960s, a month after he alleged Communists in the 1940s and 1950s.
    • Democrats in the Senate got a full, free, and absolute pardon.
  • The Watergate Act helped to decentralize power in Washington without a warrant.
  • The post-Watergate reforms made in 1974 were one of the great ironies of American political voter turnout.
    • In 1976, there were bumper stickers that said "Don't vote."
    • The opposite of what had been intended was damaged by Watergate.
  • Despite mastering the pop mittees, the moderate Nixon staff doubled to more than 20,000.
    • Conservatives did not like a diffuse power.
    • Lobbyists were given more places to exert tensions with the Soviet Union because of his relaxation of structure.
    • As the power of committee chairs weakened, China won him no friends on the influence shift to party leaders, such as the Speaker right.
    • The House and the Senate majority leader were helped by his exit.
    • The parties grew more rigid with little vative Republicans who changed the incentive to compromise.
  • The Watergate rights southerners increased in frequency.
    • We have come to know that the Con gave them a reprieve, a second chance at redemption.
    • The army of lobbyists and its slow- moving enchanted with politicians came into being in the 1970s.
  • Republicans and congressional Democrats had an opportunity to improve their image.
    • The electoral realignment that began with trial in 1974 was unpopular among the public, but it was Richard Nixon's presidential victories in 1968 and 1972 that saved the nation.
    • Louis Harris continued.
    • As liberalism proved unable to stop run, it remarked that should a politician pardon away inflation or speed up economic growth, it is vatism gained greater traction with the public.
    • Micro elections were held in 1974 to make Watergate and Ford's pardon of the money supply part of the Keynesian consensus.
    • When the formula failed to restart the econ members of the House came to Washington in 1975, conservatives in Congress used many of them under the age of forty-five, and the press dubbed them Watergate babies.
  • American politics quickly set to work as power was shifting but slowly.
    • They moved toward the West and South.
  • TABLE 29.1 gained greater political clout for California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas.
  • Mondale wanted to ensure his ties to traditional Democratic voting blocs.
  • Carter won with 50 percent of the popular vote.
  • The house after the inauguration had a cardigan sweater on.
  • The Sunbelt states gained political clout while the Rust Belt lost it during the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.
    • Carter relied heavily on inexperienced advisors from the population in congressional seats which are apportioned.
    • Georgia gained 66 seats.
    • The Rust Belt lost 44 as a detail-oriented micromanager.
    • The liberal coalition was undermined by this shifting political geography because it was exhausted by the policy better in industrial states with large labor unions.
  • The economy is managed.
    • He faced problems with the Office of the Clerk of the House.
  • Stagflation was the most surprising.
    • Unemployment became worse if the government focused on inflation.
    • If the government tried to increase employment, it would cause inflation to increase.
    • None of the levers of government economic policy seemed to work in Michigan.
  • The nation's assessment of Carter's sermonizing was aptly captured by the media's shorthand, "Meow."
    • His approval rating fell below 30 percent.
    • It was no wonder that the inflation rate was over 11 percent, failing industries, and long lines at the pumps.
    • The first-term president couldn't help but worry about the political costs to him and his party as it seemed the worst of all possible economic worlds.
  • The Vietnam War, protests, riots, Watergate, recession and many other social and political upheavals made many Americans tired and cynical by the mid-1970s.
    • Some took reform in new directions, while others retreated to private concerns.
    • After receiving the "rights revolution" of the 1960s deeper into the American Democratic nomination for president in 1976, these movements pushed his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
    • Carter was not dead.
    • Others pushed back.
    • After the Watergate scandal, ordinary people formed their own organizations to restore trust in Washington.
    • Carter was able to resist the emergence of what they saw as a per Christian, but he was not able to solve the missive society.
  • Jimmy Carter wants to reignite economic growth.
  • Americans became even more divided over affirmative action after the Supreme Court's 1978 decision.
    • African Americans and Hispanics were promised equal opportunity in jobs and education by affirmative action.
    • Affirmative action looked like reverse discrimination to many whites.
  • There was a shift in affirmative action policy.
  • The Supreme Court rejected the medical whites because they felt that the deck was being stacked against them by the school's quota system.
    • Some of the dissent came from conservative students.
    • The groups were ordered to oppose civil rights.
    • Legal challenges abounded, as use with other factors would still pass constitutional mus ees, students, and university applicants went to court.
    • Liberal groups sought a middle position by rejecting a quota system.
    • In 1972 it was called into question.
  • California Congress wants to reform rape laws.
  • The causes had national organizations by the end of the decade, unlike the civil rights movement, which had millions of lives saved.
  • In this era, neither move ment achieved all of its aims, but each laid a strong foundation for the future.
  • The women's liberation movement reached its peak in the first half of the 1970s.
    • Women's liberation produced activism on the scale of the earlier black-led civil rights movement.
    • Women's centers, as well as womenrun child-care facilities, began to spring up in cities and towns.
    • There was a feminist art and poetry movement.
    • Women challenged the admissions policies of all-male colleges and universities, opening prestigious universities such as Yale and Columbia and nearly bringing an end to male-only institutions of higher education.
    • By studying women's history and founding women's studies programs, female scholars began to transform higher education.
  • The female body was the focus of women's liberation activism.
    • During a rally at the Illinois State Capitol on thirty state legislatures, activists pushed for remedies more than with reporters, because they wanted to reform antiaboror.
    • The Equal Rights Amendment was being considered by the state legislature when women's liberationists were founded.
  • It was a message that was popular among the people who adopted the amendment in 1972.
    • Thirty-four of the necessary thirty-eight states had rati within two years for those who were troubled by the rapid pace of social change.
    • The ERA appeared headed for adoption after it was fied.
    • Progress was halted despite a congressional extension of the deadline.
  • She advocated traditional reproductive rights despite her movement's goal of winning her own flourishing career.
    • Legis roles for women were pursued by activists.
    • She said that the ERA would be cre lative and judicial.
    • Women were drafted in virtually every state in the early 1960s, when abortion was legal.
    • Thanks to the army, they were forced to use single-sex toilets.
  • After that was slow, women's advocates turned pies.
    • There was reason to be hopeful.
  • TheERA went smoothly in 1972 and 1973, but then stopped.
    • The turning point was in 1976, when the conservative legislatures in Florida, North Carolina, and Illinois refused to change their minds.
    • The amendment didn't have enough votes to get the three-fourths majority needed for adoption.
    • Efforts to revive the ERA in the 1980s were unsuccessful.
  • The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for approval.
    • The amendment caused a lot of debate in the South and Midwest.
    • There are four voices in that debate.
  • Jerry Falwell was a fundamentalist Baptist preacher who was opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment.
    • Her organization, STOP Virginia, a television Evangelist, and the founder of the ERA, fought against the amendment in critical states and helped to halt its passage.
  • The foundation of the women's liberation and television and radio talk shows has been filled for movement by a small group of women who were months with a strident advocacy of the "rights" of women once bored with life.
    • Many women don't accept their God life.
    • What about the rights of women who don't get roles?
    • Does she have different needs and roles?
  • The right to be a woman is protected and provided for in equal work, thanks to the laws of every one of our 50 states.
    • This is not the career of a feminist as a woman, wife, and mother.
    • Equal rights movement is all about it.
  • The laws of all 50 states require that the Bible is believed and that women receive more support from their husbands than men.
    • Men and women have different homes for them to live in.
    • The Equal Rights Amendment does not protect a woman's right to be a full-time wife and what needs to be done for her.
    • She needs to know that Jesus Christ is her Lord and Savior and that she has the right to care for her baby in her own home.
    • She needs a man who is financially supported by her husband.
  • There is a Christian family in one of the groups.
  • Their motive is crazy.
  • They don't like men, marriage, and children.
    • It is a violation of holy Scripture to destroy morality and the family.
    • The husband is the head of the wife, of woman supporting the Equal Rights Amendment from even as Christ is the head of the church.
    • Many of them have felt the keen together of the grace of life after reading the busi Peter 3:7 that husbands are to give their wives ness and professional women are supporting the Equal honor as unto the weaker vessel, that they are both heirs Rights Amendment.
    • A woman is less likely to be discriminated against in their employment.
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  • The National Women's Conference held in Houston in 1977 made this statement at state legislative hearings.
  • According to public instruction in North Carolina, she was the assistant state superintendent for The Declaration of Independence in 1977.
  • I broke my foot a short time ago.
  • Aside from the fact that women have been subjected dependent, cared for by somebody who's got a social to varying, inconsistent, and often unfavorable decisions security number and hospitalization insurance.
    • The Equal Rights used to assume that if I cared for my husband, I would be Amendment because of sex discrimination in Federal and State laws.
    • She didn't take into account the fact that one out of eight women heading families in pov could ever be in a case interpretation under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • My concern is that there are so many women.
  • Women have been a bit careless.
  • Both Koontz and Schlafly think of mistaken practice for law in different ways.
  • The state cannot support men and the women need to make their own decisions.

How do the four authors define women's roles?

  • The Supreme Court first addressed reproductive rights women's equality.
    • An 1879 state law prohibiting the possession of unsafe procedures resulted in physical harm to contraception as a violation of married couples' consti women and even death.
  • The rights of notable victories were protected by the gay rights movement.
    • These also proved controver vacy.
    • More than a dozen cities had passed gay rights questioning whether the Constitution would recognize them by the mid-1970s, protecting gay men, and 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 The Supreme Court chose to move forward, transforming a Florida, sparking a protest led by a con servative Baptist and a television celebrity.
    • Save stitutionally protected right.
  • The emergence of a conser Christians, Catholics, and conservatives opposed to gay rights was symbolized by the evangelical and fundamentalist bill.
  • Across the country from Miami, developments in cally, the taking of a human life, were seen as unequivo.
    • The Americans, rep San Francisco, looked promising for gay rights, but they were turned tragic by groups such as the National Right to Life.
    • Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
    • Milk was assassinated almost exactly a year after he was elected.
  • Milk arrived in San Francisco in ment barriers after these rulings helped women break into the workforce.
  • He became involved in city politics.
    • In all of their rulings on privacy rights, he ran as an openly gay candidate for city, but he was reluctant to move ahead of the pub supervisor and the state assembly's attitudes toward homosexuality.
  • Same-sex relations are a powerful bloc because of the "gay vote".
    • Milk was a supervisor in 1977.
  • The majority opinion held that homosexuality was Massachusetts, but he became contrary to "ordered liberty" and that extending sexual a national symbol of emerging gay political power.
  • Five thousand gays and lesbians in San The American Family on Trial marched on city hall after White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder.
  • The life of a real American family was chronicled in a PBS series in 1973.
  • They didn't expect the fam to appoint strict constructionists.
    • In the final episode, Bill was able to appoint four new justices husbands and fathers who had left the Supreme Court, including the new chief justice.
    • The Warren Burger was on the show by the time it aired.
    • The Burger Court became a single working mother with five children despite the fact that the conservative couple was divorced and Pat had credentials of its new members.
  • The "right of privacy" was extended in 1965, the divorce rate doubled, and children Warren to include women's access to abortion.
    • When we were born in the 1970s, we had a 40 percent chance of spending and few Supreme Court decisions in the twenti part of our youth in a single-parent household.
    • Conservatives have been disappointed more.
  • The Burger Court either con and more families depended on two incomes for sur firmed previous liberal rulings or chose a centrist vival.
  • Los Angeles police chief Ed Davis accused the Court of establishing a "legal oligarchy" of establishing puritanical sexual values.
  • The workplace and other arenas were unconstitutional in the 70s and the 1980s.
  • The Modern State and the Age of Liberty, 1945-1980 of inflation, giving workers more buying power with Americans, were fast becoming dependent on the two each passing decade.
    • The income household stopped being income household by 1973.
  • The two different stories of American manufacturing jobs are told in the numbers.
    • The hardest hit were blue-collar workers and those without college degrees.
  • Millions of wives and husbands pay for college, medical bills, and support aging mothers who have worked for decades.
    • Many parents pay the rent.
    • A bread of single women raising children nearly doubled winner income, earned by men, enough to support a between 1965 and 1990.
    • Women's paid labor was part of the family.
    • Fewer and fewer Americans had access to that luxury after 1973.
    • Every major income group except the top 10 percent women's real income grew during the same period, with their real earnings accounting for inflation.
    • The opening of profes was reflected in this increase.
    • The skilled jobs were available to educated baby-boomer women.
  • The struggles streamed into the workforce.
  • Their mothers had dreamed of the pro between 1950 and 1994.
  • 37 to 75 percent of the time, economic concerns did.
  • Blue-collar workers were the most affected by unemployment in the 1970s.
    • Joblessness among construction workers was between 20 and 30 percent in many cities.
    • In 1976, an unemployed carpenter in Cleveland, Ohio, files for unemployment insurance.
    • The "bluecollar blues" were caused by long unemployment lines, high inflation, and difficult economic times.
    • Permission was granted for the Reprinted with Permission.
  • Workers won a measure with plant closings and the hard-fought strikes of the public attention but typically gained little economic decade.
  • The nation was fascinated by the plant.
    • When Americans turned on their TVs in the higher wages but for better working conditions, the most popular shows reflected the "blue plant had the most complex assembly line in the collar blues" of struggling families.
  • The actors brought a realistic portrait of workingclass African American life to television.
  • The technology made do after divorce in the 1970s.
    • Despite the oppressive labor system, I feel like I am expressing myself the way I feel.
    • A female California college student told a reporter in 1966 that American culture paid close attention to her, explaining her sex life.
  • The decade also saw the rise of musicians such as nal shift who were associated with a puritanical view of sex with their parents' generation.
  • The proliferation of pornography con of Harlem and the South Bronx in New York has young people trying to sell women as sex objects.
    • The working class African American men were optimistic that the new sex with dance and musical forms invented break dancing ual ethic could free women from those older moral and rap music -- styles that expressed both the hard constraints.
  • The economic downturn was not the only force that put stress on American families in the 70s.
  • In the first half of the twentieth century, William Masters and Virginia Johnson became opments.
  • The Kinsey studies of the 1940s and 1950s were made easier by comfort.
    • By the 1960s, he was able to distinguish his writing from pornography.
    • Sex is the only place where we can change for women and learn to treat them as people.
  • Warren Beatty was the first leading ladies' man.
  • More than 6 million Ameri tune with Hollywood's advancement of sexual revolution.
  • Most Americans continued to create monogamous relationships despite a small minority rejecting marriage.
    • Marriage came under a variety of economic and psychological stresses and many came to believe that they needed help.
  • A therapeutic industry sprang up.
    • Marriage seminars and counseling services were established by churches and secular groups.
    • The "encounter group," a popular form of 1960s psychotherapy, was adapted to marriage counseling, where couples met in large groups to explore new methods of communicating.
    • Marriage Encounter was founded by the Catholic Church.
    • It became one of the nation's largest counseling organizations when it expanded into Protestant and Jewish communities.
    • Middle-class Americans have changed how they view marriage.
  • Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth more acceptable was part of a larger shift in American culture in which frank sexual discussions and the portrayal of sexual situations in various media grew.
  • The portrayal of sex in America has been moderated by advertising revenue for three centuries.
    • In the second half of the historians called Great Awakenings, the networks exploited and criticized the new and 8.
    • The church has seen a rise in sexual ethic.
    • The fourth in U.S. history, sexual such awakening, took shape morality.
    • It had many elements, but one major network produced more than a dozen made of its central features, which was a growing concern with the for-TV movies about children in sexual danger.
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, many mainstream Prot threats to children posed by less strict sexual estants embraced the reform spirit of the age.
  • The sexual revolution threatened marriage.
  • It was common during the civil rights battle.
    • Sex churches, among them the Episcopal, Methodist, and ual satisfaction, were seen as a healthy part of the marriage bond by many mainline Protestant in the twentieth century.
  • Billy Graham was the only one who did more to keep the evangelical fire burn churches.
  • The 1949 tent revival in Los Angeles that lasted eight days had an influence on the American message of Christianity.
  • The resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s was led by the TV show.
    • Robertson built huge churches and large popular followings through his television ministries.
    • The family held a sixteen-week crusade in New York City in 1957 and the father was the main earner.
  • The groundwork for the Fourth Great Christian author was laid in the 1960s.
  • First, rising divorce rates, social unrest, tian family through more than the pulpit and televi and challenges to prevailing values led people to seek sion.
    • They founded publishing houses and wrote books.
    • Many Americans regarded established foundations and offered seminars.
  • She used the book as the basis for her classes, which were attended by 400,000 women and boasted 11,000 trained teachers.
  • The latter lost 15 percent of their membership between women to be independent and to seek equality, and evangelical church membership went up.
  • The was but one of dozens of evangelical authors and edu Assemblies of God grew by 300 percent.
  • The answer was to strengthen what they called "traditional" family use of television.
    • Graham hit the tures.
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    • These so-called televangelists built watch evangelical ministers on television, and donate huge media empires through small donations from foundations that promoted "Christian values" in millions of avid viewers -- not to mention advertising.
  • American families were strained.
    • They made family relationships in the 1970s.
    • Americans did not participate in the era of Christian broadcasting.
  • The New Right evangelical Christians were the main concern for the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
    • evangelicals believed that drawing on would make family values a political issue.
  • Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party were supported by the Reverend Jerry Falwell during the 1980 presidential campaign.
    • Falwell, head of the Moral Majority, helped to bring a new focus on family values to American politics in the late 1970s.
    • The emphasis on male-breadwinner nuclear families was a conservative version of American values.
  • There was a brief period of political reform after the Watergate scandal.
    • The battle for civil rights entered the second stage in the 1970s as Americans struggled with inflation, energy shortages, gay rights, and the rights of alleged criminals.
    • The limits of postwar prosperity problem of producing concrete results rather than leg and forced Americans to consider lowering their eco islation was highlighted by these oners and, in the realm of racial justice, focusing on the challenges.
    • Many liberals were happy with the developments.
    • A movement for environmental another effect was to strengthen a new, more conserva protection, widely supported, led to new laws and a social mood that began to challenge liberal values awareness of nature's limits, and the energy crisis high in politics and society more generally.
    • The nation's dependence on resources was lighted from side by the challenges faced by the American abroad.
  • The decades to come in politics.
  • Explain the significance of each term.

  • You can demonstrate your understanding of the chapter's main ideas by answering these questions.
  • Answer these questions to recognize the larger developments within and across the chapters.
  • There are photographs on the history of the American economy in the twentieth page.
  • There are connections between wages in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The events discussed in this chapter can be found here.
  • A sweeping treatment of the controversial is an important resource for decision.
  • You should ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates.
  • Explain the impact of the changes to defend your answer.
  • Evaluating and assessing the recent past is a challenge for historians.
  • The United States lost its role as the world's dominant economy, faced rising competition from a united Europe and a surging China, and had a wide-ranging and divisive internal debate over its own values and priorities.
  • Between 1981 and 1989 Ronald Reagan and the United States increased government military spending and the New Right consolidated in the Republican Party, challenging the liberalism of Lyndon Johnson.
    • As internal reforms swept through the Soviet Union, Reagan softened his stance and engaged the federal government, but the welfare state was shrunk by the liberal Democrats during the New Deal and the Gorbachev.
    • Between 1989 and 1991 the Great Society and military were expanded.
    • The four-decade Cold War came to an end.
    • Eastern Europe collapsed when the Christians and conservative lawmakers challenged the communist regimes in abortion rights, feminism, and gay rights.
    • The result was a culture war that divided Americans.
  • Without a credible rival, the United States emerged decades of liberal government activism, much of the in the 1990s as the lone military "superpower" in legacy of the New Deal was preserved.
    • Instances expanded when there was no clear Cold War enemy.
    • Medicare, Medicaid, and Social was involved in civil wars, worked to disrupt terrorist activities, and provided humanitarian aid, but on a federal budget.
    • Conservatives put a stamp on the US.
  • The presidential elec supplies were of paramount importance.
    • The U.S. armed forces fought three wars in 2011.
    • Americans reelected Barack Obama but region, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and returned a conservative majority to the House became even more embedded in its politics.
  • The end of the Cold War brought a dramatic embrace of moderate liberalism by Americans, but the national political system remained mired in stalemate.
  • The economy had ended by the early 1970s.
    • Inflation shot up.
    • There were major events in computer technology.
    • The "culture wars" and how they led to renewed economic growth.
  • The fall of communism and the end of the Cold War made possible this global expansion of capitalism, as multinational corporations moved production to low-wage countries.
  • The European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement were created because of deregulation of financial markets.
  • Conservative tax policies, deindustrialization, and globalization all contributed to widening inequality between the rich and poor.
    • Europe and much of North America suffered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression as a result of global market deregulation.
    • As a result of globalization, there were new economic opportunities as well as the potential for renewed economic insecurity.

  • African accounts for the largest Don't Tell policy in the U.S.

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  • A new fictional charac ter appeared on national television.
  • Suburban and urban crisis.
  • Archie Jimmy Carter: The Outsider was a conservative, hardscrabble view of the world.
  • His significance went beyond politics.
    • Archie's modest home in Queens, New The Women's Movement and York was brought about by his feminist daughter, liberal son-in-law and black Civil Rights in a New Era neighbors.
    • Archie was not the only one who was resistant to change.
    • The Gay Rights middle-of-the-road people faced the aftermath of the tumultuous late 1960s and After the Warren Court.
    • Americans were challenged to think in new ways about race, gender roles, sexual morality, and the family.
    • It wasn't clear what would take its place.
  • The country faced eco of Deindustrialization nomic setbacks as a result of cultural dislocation and political alienation.
  • Economic growth slowed after the World War II.
    • Fuel shortages were caused by an energy crisis and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
    • The Fourth Great Awakening manufacturing brought less expensive and more reliable goods into the U.S. in the 1970s.
  • More American plants closed.
    • Since World War II, the United States has enjoyed a great economic ride.
  • The period between the energy crisis and the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency is known as the collective national search for order in the midst of economic crisis, political realignment, and rapid social change.
    • Cold War liberalism, rising living standards, and the nuclear family had come under question, and most agreed on the need to act.
    • For some, this search required new forms of experimentation.
  • It led to the conservatism of the New Right.
  • Women expanded their role in national life in the 70s as American society underwent dramatic changes.
    • Donna Wright was the only woman working at the Blue Ribbon Mine in 1979.
  • An Era of Limits became heavily dependent on inexpensive imported oil, mostly from the Persian Gulf, in the 1980's.
    • The economic downturn of the early 1970s was can and European oil companies discovered and the deepest slump since the Great Depression.
    • When the Middle Eastern fields were developed early in the 20th century, employment, productivity, and tieth century turned negative, and the British and French empire took over.
    • Middle Eastern was going through a rough patch.
    • Inflation, brought on in part by mili states threw off the remnants of European colonialism, made it difficult for them to demand concessions for access to the fields.
  • When the Middle East embargo cut oil supplies, prices went up even more.
    • Productivity growth was low until 1982, and unemployment was high under profit-sharing agreements.
  • Between 1967 and 1973.
    • The toxic effects of modern Israel's victory in the Six-Day War on the natural world were brought to light.
    • Several major cities verged on bank each year as the urban tensions in the region grew closer to boiling over.
    • Syria invaded Israel to regain territory lost in the 1967 conflict, and political limits were reached as well.
    • Each spent years trying to get their economy back on track, but Israel prevailed.
  • The oil embargo was declared by the Arab states in response to the Energy Crisis.
    • Modern economies have gas prices that run on oil.
    • The United States jumped by 40 percent if the oil supply is reduced.
    • heating oil prices went up by 30 percent.
    • Demand was higher in the United States in the 1970s.
  • The West's vulnerability was revealed when oil became a political weapon.
  • In the face of the oil shortage, the United States scrambled to meet its energy needs.
    • Congress imposed a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour in order to conserve fuel.
    • Americans began to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars such as Volkswagens, Toyotas, and Datsuns -- while sales of Detroit-made cars (now nicknamed "gas guzzlers") slumped.
    • One of every six jobs in the country is generated directly or indirectly by the auto industry.
    • In 1974 alone, the prices of basic necessities, such as bread, milk, and canned goods, rose by nearly 20 percent because of the inflation set off by the oil shortage.
  • The movement's histori plants and wildlife were extended in Florida in the 1970s.
  • Congress 1960s was the year when the cession of galvanizing developments followed on the heels of the Santa Barbara oil spill.
    • The National Environmental Policy Act would have flooded the Grand Canyon if it had been passed.
  • The 1970s saw the emergence of the environmental movement in the United States.
    • The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 was signed by Republican pres ident Richard Nixon.
  • The following documents give a range of perspectives on an important social and political move.
  • For the first time in the history of the world, every human new financing method for purchasing open space and being is now subjected to contact with dangerous parklands before they are lost to us.
  • The air is polluted by the automobile.
    • Synthetic pesticides quate control requires further advances in engine design, which has been distributed throughout the and fuel composition.
    • We will intensify our research and strengthen enforcement in the world.
    • We will do it now that they have been recovered from most procedures.
  • We can't afford to think about air and water flowing unseen through the earth.
  • It is a violence that has different impacts, styles and time factors than the more primitive types of violence such as crime in the streets.
    • In the size of the population exposed and the seriousness of the harm done, environmental violence is far more serious than street crime.
  • To deal with a system of oppression and suppression, the first priority is to deprive the polluters of their legitimacy.
  • I propose a $10 billion nationwide clean waters program to put modern municipal waste treatment plants in every place in America where they are needed to make our waters clean again.
  • Our cities and suburbs are growing.
  • Unless we preserve these spaces, NASA.
  • Our society is so good that nothing could be more misleading to our children.
    • The standards, politics, and economics of the 1960s are dead in a world they will inherit.
    • The United States is the most powerful nation in the world and its largest consumer.
    • We may be destroyed tomorrow by the events leading to famine.
  • Our position requires us to take immediate action at home.
    • If voluntary methods fail, we must have population control at home through a system of incentives and penalties.
    • We need to use our political power to push other countries into programs that combine agricultural development and population control.
    • Before population pressure permanently ruins our planet, we must reverse the degradation of our environment.

What are the differences in this state?

  • One of the first photographs of the earth was taken from space.
  • You can use what you have learned about the environmental movement in this chapter and the documents above to make a historical argument about the origins of the movement, the issues that it raised, and the opposition that developed.
  • The Clean Air Act was one of the new laws that followed the liberal state and the age of liberty.
    • The Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 and the Endan competition from West Germany and Japan were some of the things the country faced in the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970.
  • The prediction was not correct.
  • Many of their workers believed that the postindustrial-service one had been tightened.
    • Their jobs were threatened by that transformation.
    • "If you're hungry, means that the United States and out of work, eat an environmentalist," read the sign.
    • By the 1980s, TVs and more financial services, health-care mentalism and management consulting services divided Americans, not to mention millions of low-paying jobs.
  • Prices were not supposed to rise in a stagnant power-generating nuclear technology in the 1950s, as Americans had greeted the arrival of mists.
    • Forty-two flation meant a noticeable decline in purchasing power, nuclear power plants, and a hundred more planned by the U.S. utility companies.
  • Unlike coal- or oil-driven plants, nuclear dents of the decade, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and operations produced no air pollutants.
  • Jimmy Carter had a lot of luck.
  • Nixon's New Economic Policy was one of the most gers of nuclear power plants.
    • Wage controls were imposed in 1971 in an effort to curb inflation after Nixon imposed a temporary price.
  • Tens of thousands of people fled their homes.
  • A prompt shutdown saved the plant, but the near catas remained.
    • Ford had little success.
    • TheWIN campaign urged Americans to stop using nuclear energy.
    • After the incident at Three Mile to cut food waste and do more with less, a noble but Island, no new nuclear plants were authorized, though deeply unpopular idea among the American public.
  • Nuclear reactor accounts for 20 percent of this chapter.
    • The United States is fourth in the world in terms of power generation, but fifth in terms of search for a new economic order.
  • The economy began to be dismantled in addition to the energy crisis.
    • There were a lot of long-term problems.
    • The economy's crown jewel was the steel industry, which for seventy-five years had ing on the Vietnam War and the Great Society.

  • This figure shows the impact of the oil crisis on the inflation rate.
    • The inflation rate went up to 14 percent in 1980 after a sharp recession that began in 1974.
    • The return to normal levels after 1980 was the result of very harsh measures by the Federal Reserve Board, which resulted in a painful slowdown in the economy.
  • U.S. steel producers enjoyed an open market during War II.
    • There was no incentive to replace outdated plants and equipment.
    • West Germany and Japan rebuilt their steel industries with the latest technology.
    • The American industry was overwhelmed by foreign steel during the 1970s.
    • The Pittsburgh region lost its heavy industry in a single generation as titanic steel companies began a massive dismantling.
    • The 1970s and 1980s were hard times for American industry.
    • Many of the nation's once-proud core industries, such as steel, declined in these decades.
    • The steel mill in Pittsburgh was demolished in 1982.
    • Pittsburgh was once the center of American steel production.
    • The creation of the Rust Belt in the Northeast and Midwest was the result of such closures.
  • The steelworkers were left without work when the trial base was shut down in 1977.
    • Steel was not the only one.
  • The automobile, tire, textile, and other con cent had found local work, but mostly in low-paying, sumerdurable industries.
  • The growth of the Sunbelt was one of the most significant developments of the post-World War II era.
    • The South and Southwest experienced an economic boom in the 1950s because of federal spending for military bases, the defense industry, and the space program.
    • The growth was further enhanced in the 1970s as migrants from the Rust Belt headed to the South and West in search of jobs, as the heavily industrialized regions of the Northeast and Midwest declined.
  • Facing huge price inflation and mounting piles of California workers, like hundreds of thousands of their debt -- to finance social services for the poor and counterparts across the nation, had fallen from their to replace disappearing tax revenue -- nearly every perch in the middle class.
  • The post central cities were surrounded by prosperous postwar suburbs and the labor movement.
  • New York, the nation's financial capital and its as inflation hit, had the highest number of strikes in the early 1970s.
    • In 1970 it had an annual budget that was larger than that alone.
    • Industry argued that it couldn't do most states.
  • The "era of lim accord of the 1950s, which raised profits and wages by bankruptcy was a real possibility," was how New York neared in bond market.
  • Instead of seeking higher wages, unions appealed to the federal government to save jobs.
    • President Ford refused to allow union membership to go into decline.
    • Since the 1920s, the federal government has been the solution to fresh appeals than 18 percent of American workers.
    • The impact on liberal politics would lend money to New York.
    • The coalition was collapsing.
  • New York City almost went bankrupt in the summer of 1975.
    • The newspaper headlines captured Gerald Ford's response when Mayor Abraham Beame asked for help.
  • The city's brush with insolvency symbolized the larger problems facing the nation: economic stagnation, high inflation, and unemployment.
    • No one was spared from the hard times.
  • Most major economic indicators in the United States turned downward in the 1970s, as the long postwar expansion ground to an unmistakable halt.
    • Evidence of how developments in the United States compared with other industrialized countries can be found in the fig the Seventies ures.
  • Japan's GDP growth was strong in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
  • The residents worked in the suburbs.
    • 13 million people moved to the suburbs in the 50s and 70s, 6 percent of the total population.
    • A new suburban ban home was replaced by the engineer, teacher, shopping centers opened weekly across the country, nurse, student, and carpenter who lived in one suburb and worked in another.
  • 78 percent of New York's suburban example was California.
  • While liberals were on the defensive, retirees and others on fixed incomes faced high tax bills.
    • The dire situa tives did not yet have a clear alternative.
  • The spokesman for the House dismissed the episode as a third nation's most populous state.
    • The two masterminds were second only to Mississippi.
    • Middle-class and former FBI and CIA agents currently working for wealthy home owners at the expense of less-well-off cit Nixon's Committee to Re-elect were beneficiaries of 13's complicated formula.
  • Businesses came out ahead because com was part of a pattern of abuse of power by a mercial property and the White House was obsessed with its enemies.
    • Hunt was on the White House payroll, part of a clan revolts across the country and helped conservatives stop leaks to the press.
    • They define an enduring issue as low taxes.
  • Nixon's siege mentality is what explains the decline in income inequality.
    • He could have distanced himself from the 1970s, when the trend reversed, and the wealthiest Ameri the break-in by firing his guilty aides or even just by let cans, those among the top 10 percent began to pull ting justice take its course.
    • It was election time again.
    • As corporations restructured to boost Nixon's political future, they began to lay egy.
    • Instead, he paid the remaining workers and instructed the CIA to stop the FBI investigation less, and relocated overseas.
    • The obstruction of justice was a benefit to the crimi cans.
  • Early in 1973, one of the Watergate burglars began to talk.
  • The middle of the Senate was squeezed smaller in May 1973.
  • National politics were characterized by a search for order.
    • It is certain of being convicted by the 1970s.
    • The scandal began.
    • Nixon became the first ior of politics on August 9, 1974.
    • What became known is that the U.S. president resigned.
    • President Gerald Ford took the oath of office.
    • President Richard Nixon was implicated in illegal behavior by the Republican minority leader in the House of Rep severe enough to bring down his presidency.
  • The Modern State and the Age of Liberty, 1945-1980, who had himself resigned in 1973, accepted the kick Activities Committee, which had investigated backs while he was governor of Maryland.
    • Ford stunned the nation by granting Nixon war activists in the 1960s, a month after he alleged Communists in the 1940s and 1950s.
    • Democrats in the Senate got a full, free, and absolute pardon.
  • The Watergate Act helped to decentralize power in Washington without a warrant.
  • The post-Watergate reforms made in 1974 were one of the great ironies of American political voter turnout.
    • In 1976, there were bumper stickers that said "Don't vote."
    • The opposite of what had been intended was damaged by Watergate.
  • Despite mastering the pop mittees, the moderate Nixon staff doubled to more than 20,000.
    • Conservatives did not like a diffuse power.
    • Lobbyists were given more places to exert tensions with the Soviet Union because of his relaxation of structure.
    • As the power of committee chairs weakened, China won him no friends on the influence shift to party leaders, such as the Speaker right.
    • The House and the Senate majority leader were helped by his exit.
    • The parties grew more rigid with little vative Republicans who changed the incentive to compromise.
  • The Watergate rights southerners increased in frequency.
    • We have come to know that the Con gave them a reprieve, a second chance at redemption.
    • The army of lobbyists and its slow- moving enchanted with politicians came into being in the 1970s.
  • Republicans and congressional Democrats had an opportunity to improve their image.
    • The electoral realignment that began with trial in 1974 was unpopular among the public, but it was Richard Nixon's presidential victories in 1968 and 1972 that saved the nation.
    • Louis Harris continued.
    • As liberalism proved unable to stop run, it remarked that should a politician pardon away inflation or speed up economic growth, it is vatism gained greater traction with the public.
    • Micro elections were held in 1974 to make Watergate and Ford's pardon of the money supply part of the Keynesian consensus.
    • When the formula failed to restart the econ members of the House came to Washington in 1975, conservatives in Congress used many of them under the age of forty-five, and the press dubbed them Watergate babies.
  • American politics quickly set to work as power was shifting but slowly.
    • They moved toward the West and South.
  • TABLE 29.1 gained greater political clout for California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas.
  • Mondale wanted to ensure his ties to traditional Democratic voting blocs.
  • Carter won with 50 percent of the popular vote.
  • The house after the inauguration had a cardigan sweater on.
  • The Sunbelt states gained political clout while the Rust Belt lost it during the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.
    • Carter relied heavily on inexperienced advisors from the population in congressional seats which are apportioned.
    • Georgia gained 66 seats.
    • The Rust Belt lost 44 as a detail-oriented micromanager.
    • The liberal coalition was undermined by this shifting political geography because it was exhausted by the policy better in industrial states with large labor unions.
  • The economy is managed.
    • He faced problems with the Office of the Clerk of the House.
  • Stagflation was the most surprising.
    • Unemployment became worse if the government focused on inflation.
    • If the government tried to increase employment, it would cause inflation to increase.
    • None of the levers of government economic policy seemed to work in Michigan.
  • The nation's assessment of Carter's sermonizing was aptly captured by the media's shorthand, "Meow."
    • His approval rating fell below 30 percent.
    • It was no wonder that the inflation rate was over 11 percent, failing industries, and long lines at the pumps.
    • The first-term president couldn't help but worry about the political costs to him and his party as it seemed the worst of all possible economic worlds.
  • The Vietnam War, protests, riots, Watergate, recession and many other social and political upheavals made many Americans tired and cynical by the mid-1970s.
    • Some took reform in new directions, while others retreated to private concerns.
    • After receiving the "rights revolution" of the 1960s deeper into the American Democratic nomination for president in 1976, these movements pushed his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
    • Carter was not dead.
    • Others pushed back.
    • After the Watergate scandal, ordinary people formed their own organizations to restore trust in Washington.
    • Carter was able to resist the emergence of what they saw as a per Christian, but he was not able to solve the missive society.
  • Jimmy Carter wants to reignite economic growth.
  • Americans became even more divided over affirmative action after the Supreme Court's 1978 decision.
    • African Americans and Hispanics were promised equal opportunity in jobs and education by affirmative action.
    • Affirmative action looked like reverse discrimination to many whites.
  • There was a shift in affirmative action policy.
  • The Supreme Court rejected the medical whites because they felt that the deck was being stacked against them by the school's quota system.
    • Some of the dissent came from conservative students.
    • The groups were ordered to oppose civil rights.
    • Legal challenges abounded, as use with other factors would still pass constitutional mus ees, students, and university applicants went to court.
    • Liberal groups sought a middle position by rejecting a quota system.
    • In 1972 it was called into question.
  • California Congress wants to reform rape laws.
  • The causes had national organizations by the end of the decade, unlike the civil rights movement, which had millions of lives saved.
  • In this era, neither move ment achieved all of its aims, but each laid a strong foundation for the future.
  • The women's liberation movement reached its peak in the first half of the 1970s.
    • Women's liberation produced activism on the scale of the earlier black-led civil rights movement.
    • Women's centers, as well as womenrun child-care facilities, began to spring up in cities and towns.
    • There was a feminist art and poetry movement.
    • Women challenged the admissions policies of all-male colleges and universities, opening prestigious universities such as Yale and Columbia and nearly bringing an end to male-only institutions of higher education.
    • By studying women's history and founding women's studies programs, female scholars began to transform higher education.
  • The female body was the focus of women's liberation activism.
    • During a rally at the Illinois State Capitol on thirty state legislatures, activists pushed for remedies more than with reporters, because they wanted to reform antiaboror.
    • The Equal Rights Amendment was being considered by the state legislature when women's liberationists were founded.
  • It was a message that was popular among the people who adopted the amendment in 1972.
    • Thirty-four of the necessary thirty-eight states had rati within two years for those who were troubled by the rapid pace of social change.
    • The ERA appeared headed for adoption after it was fied.
    • Progress was halted despite a congressional extension of the deadline.
  • She advocated traditional reproductive rights despite her movement's goal of winning her own flourishing career.
    • Legis roles for women were pursued by activists.
    • She said that the ERA would be cre lative and judicial.
    • Women were drafted in virtually every state in the early 1960s, when abortion was legal.
    • Thanks to the army, they were forced to use single-sex toilets.
  • After that was slow, women's advocates turned pies.
    • There was reason to be hopeful.
  • TheERA went smoothly in 1972 and 1973, but then stopped.
    • The turning point was in 1976, when the conservative legislatures in Florida, North Carolina, and Illinois refused to change their minds.
    • The amendment didn't have enough votes to get the three-fourths majority needed for adoption.
    • Efforts to revive the ERA in the 1980s were unsuccessful.
  • The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for approval.
    • The amendment caused a lot of debate in the South and Midwest.
    • There are four voices in that debate.
  • Jerry Falwell was a fundamentalist Baptist preacher who was opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment.
    • Her organization, STOP Virginia, a television Evangelist, and the founder of the ERA, fought against the amendment in critical states and helped to halt its passage.
  • The foundation of the women's liberation and television and radio talk shows has been filled for movement by a small group of women who were months with a strident advocacy of the "rights" of women once bored with life.
    • Many women don't accept their God life.
    • What about the rights of women who don't get roles?
    • Does she have different needs and roles?
  • The right to be a woman is protected and provided for in equal work, thanks to the laws of every one of our 50 states.
    • This is not the career of a feminist as a woman, wife, and mother.
    • Equal rights movement is all about it.
  • The laws of all 50 states require that the Bible is believed and that women receive more support from their husbands than men.
    • Men and women have different homes for them to live in.
    • The Equal Rights Amendment does not protect a woman's right to be a full-time wife and what needs to be done for her.
    • She needs to know that Jesus Christ is her Lord and Savior and that she has the right to care for her baby in her own home.
    • She needs a man who is financially supported by her husband.
  • There is a Christian family in one of the groups.
  • Their motive is crazy.
  • They don't like men, marriage, and children.
    • It is a violation of holy Scripture to destroy morality and the family.
    • The husband is the head of the wife, of woman supporting the Equal Rights Amendment from even as Christ is the head of the church.
    • Many of them have felt the keen together of the grace of life after reading the busi Peter 3:7 that husbands are to give their wives ness and professional women are supporting the Equal honor as unto the weaker vessel, that they are both heirs Rights Amendment.
    • A woman is less likely to be discriminated against in their employment.
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  • The National Women's Conference held in Houston in 1977 made this statement at state legislative hearings.
  • According to public instruction in North Carolina, she was the assistant state superintendent for The Declaration of Independence in 1977.
  • I broke my foot a short time ago.
  • Aside from the fact that women have been subjected dependent, cared for by somebody who's got a social to varying, inconsistent, and often unfavorable decisions security number and hospitalization insurance.
    • The Equal Rights used to assume that if I cared for my husband, I would be Amendment because of sex discrimination in Federal and State laws.
    • She didn't take into account the fact that one out of eight women heading families in pov could ever be in a case interpretation under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • My concern is that there are so many women.
  • Women have been a bit careless.
  • Both Koontz and Schlafly think of mistaken practice for law in different ways.
  • The state cannot support men and the women need to make their own decisions.

How do the four authors define women's roles?

  • The Supreme Court first addressed reproductive rights women's equality.
    • An 1879 state law prohibiting the possession of unsafe procedures resulted in physical harm to contraception as a violation of married couples' consti women and even death.
  • The rights of notable victories were protected by the gay rights movement.
    • These also proved controver vacy.
    • More than a dozen cities had passed gay rights questioning whether the Constitution would recognize them by the mid-1970s, protecting gay men, and 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 800-381-0266 The Supreme Court chose to move forward, transforming a Florida, sparking a protest led by a con servative Baptist and a television celebrity.
    • Save stitutionally protected right.
  • The emergence of a conser Christians, Catholics, and conservatives opposed to gay rights was symbolized by the evangelical and fundamentalist bill.
  • Across the country from Miami, developments in cally, the taking of a human life, were seen as unequivo.
    • The Americans, rep San Francisco, looked promising for gay rights, but they were turned tragic by groups such as the National Right to Life.
    • Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
    • Milk was assassinated almost exactly a year after he was elected.
  • Milk arrived in San Francisco in ment barriers after these rulings helped women break into the workforce.
  • He became involved in city politics.
    • In all of their rulings on privacy rights, he ran as an openly gay candidate for city, but he was reluctant to move ahead of the pub supervisor and the state assembly's attitudes toward homosexuality.
  • Same-sex relations are a powerful bloc because of the "gay vote".
    • Milk was a supervisor in 1977.
  • The majority opinion held that homosexuality was Massachusetts, but he became contrary to "ordered liberty" and that extending sexual a national symbol of emerging gay political power.
  • Five thousand gays and lesbians in San The American Family on Trial marched on city hall after White was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder.
  • The life of a real American family was chronicled in a PBS series in 1973.
  • They didn't expect the fam to appoint strict constructionists.
    • In the final episode, Bill was able to appoint four new justices husbands and fathers who had left the Supreme Court, including the new chief justice.
    • The Warren Burger was on the show by the time it aired.
    • The Burger Court became a single working mother with five children despite the fact that the conservative couple was divorced and Pat had credentials of its new members.
  • The "right of privacy" was extended in 1965, the divorce rate doubled, and children Warren to include women's access to abortion.
    • When we were born in the 1970s, we had a 40 percent chance of spending and few Supreme Court decisions in the twenti part of our youth in a single-parent household.
    • Conservatives have been disappointed more.
  • The Burger Court either con and more families depended on two incomes for sur firmed previous liberal rulings or chose a centrist vival.
  • Los Angeles police chief Ed Davis accused the Court of establishing a "legal oligarchy" of establishing puritanical sexual values.
  • The workplace and other arenas were unconstitutional in the 70s and the 1980s.
  • The Modern State and the Age of Liberty, 1945-1980 of inflation, giving workers more buying power with Americans, were fast becoming dependent on the two each passing decade.
    • The income household stopped being income household by 1973.
  • The two different stories of American manufacturing jobs are told in the numbers.
    • The hardest hit were blue-collar workers and those without college degrees.
  • Millions of wives and husbands pay for college, medical bills, and support aging mothers who have worked for decades.
    • Many parents pay the rent.
    • A bread of single women raising children nearly doubled winner income, earned by men, enough to support a between 1965 and 1990.
    • Women's paid labor was part of the family.
    • Fewer and fewer Americans had access to that luxury after 1973.
    • Every major income group except the top 10 percent women's real income grew during the same period, with their real earnings accounting for inflation.
    • The opening of profes was reflected in this increase.
    • The skilled jobs were available to educated baby-boomer women.
  • The struggles streamed into the workforce.
  • Their mothers had dreamed of the pro between 1950 and 1994.
  • 37 to 75 percent of the time, economic concerns did.
  • Blue-collar workers were the most affected by unemployment in the 1970s.
    • Joblessness among construction workers was between 20 and 30 percent in many cities.
    • In 1976, an unemployed carpenter in Cleveland, Ohio, files for unemployment insurance.
    • The "bluecollar blues" were caused by long unemployment lines, high inflation, and difficult economic times.
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  • Workers won a measure with plant closings and the hard-fought strikes of the public attention but typically gained little economic decade.
  • The nation was fascinated by the plant.
    • When Americans turned on their TVs in the higher wages but for better working conditions, the most popular shows reflected the "blue plant had the most complex assembly line in the collar blues" of struggling families.
  • The actors brought a realistic portrait of workingclass African American life to television.
  • The technology made do after divorce in the 1970s.
    • Despite the oppressive labor system, I feel like I am expressing myself the way I feel.
    • A female California college student told a reporter in 1966 that American culture paid close attention to her, explaining her sex life.
  • The decade also saw the rise of musicians such as nal shift who were associated with a puritanical view of sex with their parents' generation.
  • The proliferation of pornography con of Harlem and the South Bronx in New York has young people trying to sell women as sex objects.
    • The working class African American men were optimistic that the new sex with dance and musical forms invented break dancing ual ethic could free women from those older moral and rap music -- styles that expressed both the hard constraints.
  • The economic downturn was not the only force that put stress on American families in the 70s.
  • In the first half of the twentieth century, William Masters and Virginia Johnson became opments.
  • The Kinsey studies of the 1940s and 1950s were made easier by comfort.
    • By the 1960s, he was able to distinguish his writing from pornography.
    • Sex is the only place where we can change for women and learn to treat them as people.
  • Warren Beatty was the first leading ladies' man.
  • More than 6 million Ameri tune with Hollywood's advancement of sexual revolution.
  • Most Americans continued to create monogamous relationships despite a small minority rejecting marriage.
    • Marriage came under a variety of economic and psychological stresses and many came to believe that they needed help.
  • A therapeutic industry sprang up.
    • Marriage seminars and counseling services were established by churches and secular groups.
    • The "encounter group," a popular form of 1960s psychotherapy, was adapted to marriage counseling, where couples met in large groups to explore new methods of communicating.
    • Marriage Encounter was founded by the Catholic Church.
    • It became one of the nation's largest counseling organizations when it expanded into Protestant and Jewish communities.
    • Middle-class Americans have changed how they view marriage.
  • Religion in the 1970s: The Fourth more acceptable was part of a larger shift in American culture in which frank sexual discussions and the portrayal of sexual situations in various media grew.
  • The portrayal of sex in America has been moderated by advertising revenue for three centuries.
    • In the second half of the historians called Great Awakenings, the networks exploited and criticized the new and 8.
    • The church has seen a rise in sexual ethic.
    • The fourth in U.S. history, sexual such awakening, took shape morality.
    • It had many elements, but one major network produced more than a dozen made of its central features, which was a growing concern with the for-TV movies about children in sexual danger.
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, many mainstream Prot threats to children posed by less strict sexual estants embraced the reform spirit of the age.
  • The sexual revolution threatened marriage.
  • It was common during the civil rights battle.
    • Sex churches, among them the Episcopal, Methodist, and ual satisfaction, were seen as a healthy part of the marriage bond by many mainline Protestant in the twentieth century.
  • Billy Graham was the only one who did more to keep the evangelical fire burn churches.
  • The 1949 tent revival in Los Angeles that lasted eight days had an influence on the American message of Christianity.
  • The resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the 1970s and 1980s was led by the TV show.
    • Robertson built huge churches and large popular followings through his television ministries.
    • The family held a sixteen-week crusade in New York City in 1957 and the father was the main earner.
  • The groundwork for the Fourth Great Christian author was laid in the 1960s.
  • First, rising divorce rates, social unrest, tian family through more than the pulpit and televi and challenges to prevailing values led people to seek sion.
    • They founded publishing houses and wrote books.
    • Many Americans regarded established foundations and offered seminars.
  • She used the book as the basis for her classes, which were attended by 400,000 women and boasted 11,000 trained teachers.
  • The latter lost 15 percent of their membership between women to be independent and to seek equality, and evangelical church membership went up.
  • The was but one of dozens of evangelical authors and edu Assemblies of God grew by 300 percent.
  • The answer was to strengthen what they called "traditional" family use of television.
    • Graham hit the tures.
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    • These so-called televangelists built watch evangelical ministers on television, and donate huge media empires through small donations from foundations that promoted "Christian values" in millions of avid viewers -- not to mention advertising.
  • American families were strained.
    • They made family relationships in the 1970s.
    • Americans did not participate in the era of Christian broadcasting.
  • The New Right evangelical Christians were the main concern for the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
    • evangelicals believed that drawing on would make family values a political issue.
  • Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party were supported by the Reverend Jerry Falwell during the 1980 presidential campaign.
    • Falwell, head of the Moral Majority, helped to bring a new focus on family values to American politics in the late 1970s.
    • The emphasis on male-breadwinner nuclear families was a conservative version of American values.
  • There was a brief period of political reform after the Watergate scandal.
    • The battle for civil rights entered the second stage in the 1970s as Americans struggled with inflation, energy shortages, gay rights, and the rights of alleged criminals.
    • The limits of postwar prosperity problem of producing concrete results rather than leg and forced Americans to consider lowering their eco islation was highlighted by these oners and, in the realm of racial justice, focusing on the challenges.
    • Many liberals were happy with the developments.
    • A movement for environmental another effect was to strengthen a new, more conserva protection, widely supported, led to new laws and a social mood that began to challenge liberal values awareness of nature's limits, and the energy crisis high in politics and society more generally.
    • The nation's dependence on resources was lighted from side by the challenges faced by the American abroad.
  • The decades to come in politics.
  • Explain the significance of each term.

  • You can demonstrate your understanding of the chapter's main ideas by answering these questions.
  • Answer these questions to recognize the larger developments within and across the chapters.
  • There are photographs on the history of the American economy in the twentieth page.
  • There are connections between wages in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • The events discussed in this chapter can be found here.
  • A sweeping treatment of the controversial is an important resource for decision.
  • You should ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates.
  • Explain the impact of the changes to defend your answer.
  • Evaluating and assessing the recent past is a challenge for historians.
  • The United States lost its role as the world's dominant economy, faced rising competition from a united Europe and a surging China, and had a wide-ranging and divisive internal debate over its own values and priorities.
  • Between 1981 and 1989 Ronald Reagan and the United States increased government military spending and the New Right consolidated in the Republican Party, challenging the liberalism of Lyndon Johnson.
    • As internal reforms swept through the Soviet Union, Reagan softened his stance and engaged the federal government, but the welfare state was shrunk by the liberal Democrats during the New Deal and the Gorbachev.
    • Between 1989 and 1991 the Great Society and military were expanded.
    • The four-decade Cold War came to an end.
    • Eastern Europe collapsed when the Christians and conservative lawmakers challenged the communist regimes in abortion rights, feminism, and gay rights.
    • The result was a culture war that divided Americans.
  • Without a credible rival, the United States emerged decades of liberal government activism, much of the in the 1990s as the lone military "superpower" in legacy of the New Deal was preserved.
    • Instances expanded when there was no clear Cold War enemy.
    • Medicare, Medicaid, and Social was involved in civil wars, worked to disrupt terrorist activities, and provided humanitarian aid, but on a federal budget.
    • Conservatives put a stamp on the US.
  • The presidential elec supplies were of paramount importance.
    • The U.S. armed forces fought three wars in 2011.
    • Americans reelected Barack Obama but region, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, and returned a conservative majority to the House became even more embedded in its politics.
  • The end of the Cold War brought a dramatic embrace of moderate liberalism by Americans, but the national political system remained mired in stalemate.
  • The economy had ended by the early 1970s.
    • Inflation shot up.
    • There were major events in computer technology.
    • The "culture wars" and how they led to renewed economic growth.
  • The fall of communism and the end of the Cold War made possible this global expansion of capitalism, as multinational corporations moved production to low-wage countries.
  • The European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement were created because of deregulation of financial markets.
  • Conservative tax policies, deindustrialization, and globalization all contributed to widening inequality between the rich and poor.
    • Europe and much of North America suffered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression as a result of global market deregulation.
    • As a result of globalization, there were new economic opportunities as well as the potential for renewed economic insecurity.

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