Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party
Ronald Reagan was the ___th president of the United States
Who was the 40th president of the United States
This economic policy was based on trickle down economics
What is Reaganomics/supply-side economics?
A major oragnization in the Religious Right that supported Reagan's politics.
Who was the Moral Majority?
Reagan increased this type of spending while cutting domestic program budgets.
What is the military/defense spending?
The population of white-working class (blue collar), labor union members, and catholic voters who defected to vote for Republican Reagan.
Who were the Reagan Democrats?
An economic condition defined by the combination of high inflation, high unemployment and stagnant economic growth
What is stagflation?
The Religious Right sought to restore this practice in public schools as part of its moral reform agenda.
What is the school prayer?
Although Reagan aimed to shrink government, this financial outcome expanded significantly during his presidency due largely to tax cuts and defense spending.
What is national debt?
Reagan believed in this philosophy regarding the role government should play in people's lives.
What is limited government?
Reaganomics was a rejection of ____ economics
What is Keynesian Economics?
What is Roe v. Wade
This proposed 1983 space-based missile defense system was designed to protect the U.S. from Soviet nuclear attacks and prevent MAD.
(official name and nickname)
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
What was "Star Wars"?
Reagan's presidency was a fundamental rejection of the ___ that dominated the 60s and 70s.
What is Liberalism?
___ would free corporations from many complicated bureaucratic rules that struck as burdensome and unnecessarily restrictive
This televangelist founded the Moral Majority and helped mobilize evangelical voters in the 1980 election.
Who is Jerry Falwell?
This policy increasing payroll taxes, gradually raising the full retirement age to 67, and making up to half of benefits taxable for higher earners
What was the Social Security Amendment of 1983
In the 1980 presidential election, Reagan won this many electoral votes.
What is 489?
The congress passed the _____ that would cut income taxes by ___% over the next 3 years.
What is the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 that cut taxes by 25%?
One of the key strategies of the moral majority was to appoint conservative supreme court justices. ___ is one of the 4 judges that Reagan appointed.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy?
Though initially confrontational toward the USSR, Reagan later worked with this Soviet leader to negotiate arms reduction agreements.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?