Impact On Minorities

Question 1

Reagan and Civil Rights

Answer 1

Didn’t do as much as Nixon
First few months: 5 discrimination disputes, Nixon: 22
NAACP Crisis Magazine: Reagan abandoned bussing students into various schools

Question 2

Women’s rights

Answer 2

Didn't support Civil Rights Act for women 
Anti abortion (didn't enforce legislation)

Question 3

Gay rights

Answer 3

Accused as unsupportive of Gay Rights
Didn’t mention AIDS epidemic yet Gov’t funded research
Support when friend Rocky Hudson died of AIDS

Question 4

Who mostly felt the benefits?

Answer 4

WASPs and growing black middle class

Question 5

Changing production

Answer 5

Service industries expanded eg estate agents and office chains
New industries doing well eg defence- impacted population migration
Old manufacturing did badly against foreign imports eg cars and textiles- rise in chinese manufacturing
S&E coasts improved whilst mid west did badly

Question 6

Changing businesses

Answer 6

Favoured ‘big business’

Money supply tightened so interest rates rose

Question 7

Farm demonstrations

Answer 7

1986 National Save the Family Farm Coalition- organised demonstrations and campaigns- traffic slowing tractorades

Question 8

Suffering farms

Answer 8

1983 drought
Small farms bought out by argi- businesses
Heavily impacted by high interest rates and federal non intervention

Question 9

USSR wheat protest

Answer 9

1979: stopped exporting wheat in protest to USSR when they invaded Afghanistan
Said he was helping small businesses by tax breaks
Farming affected by high interest and federal non intervention

Question 10

Bush quote

Answer 10

Referred to reaganomics as ‘Voodoo Economics’

Question 11

Transfer of wealth

Answer 11

Massive transfer to the rich- greatest transition in US presidency- redistribution to top 2%

Question 12

Air control strike

Answer 12

Fired those who protested
‘Open season’ on protestors of organised labour
Cuts only on social spending- massive increase in military ($34 million per hr)