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what were Reagan promises (5)

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  • strong leadership
  • less ‘big gov’
  • moving away from ‘great society’ and ‘liberalism’
  • fix the economy
  • encouraging rugged individualism
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What did he focused on

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defeating communism

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How is he similar to FDR

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  • campaigned for radical change
  • control federal spending = both failed
  • both charismatic people wanting to replace bad presidents
  • encouraged rugged individualism
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what was ‘supply side economics’?

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  • emerged in the late 70’s
  • where economy was driven by production and encouraged saving
  • restraints on production removed- had a ‘trickle down’ economic effect
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What did Reagan do in his first moments as president?

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  • fired white house staff and froze federal government hiring
  • said to have froze office furnishing
  • used executive orders to set up advisory groups
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what does deregulation mean

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removing federal control in industry, state and local gov

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what 4 points did Reaganomics include

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  • cutting federal deficit
  • personal and business tax reduction
  • deregulation
  • planned control of money supply (keeping inflation down)
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what was positive about Reagan’s attempted assassination

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  • he bounced back with humor
  • created popularity
  • gave him more mandate for change
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did Reagans policies stop inflation

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  • money supply restrictions= increase of interest rates, hurt industries buying on credit
  • caused unemployment to increase
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what happened to people with employment

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  • more people deemed ‘unemployable’
  • some people had no yearly wage or insurance
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did his policies increase productivity

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yes, in finance but not in manufacturing

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what happened to poor and rich people

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poorer became poorer while rich became richer

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did his policies encourage people to invest

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  • rich invested due to businesses doing well
  • ordinary people didn’t
    problems to cut down ‘big gov’ led to deregulation, caused a competitive financial environment
  • caused stock market crash in 1987
  • people lost savings and investments
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what was Reagan’s most notable failures

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policies NOT reducing the deficit
- this was because of his spending on the military and borrowing from abroad

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did policies increase personal wealth?

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  • tax cuts made people richer
  • per capita disposable income grew
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was big gov reduced short term?

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  • cut federal regulations
    -brought down cost of petrol and heating
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big gov negatives overall

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  • focused on small details of federal spending, not rising deficit of debt
  • showed the media change
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what were the problems of deregulation

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  • small businesses struggled, large businesses bought them out
  • businesses set their own standards of physical and financial safety (lower than the gov) due to competition
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what two groups did Reagan put into categories and see a difference through

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‘deserving poor’ and ‘welfare scroungers’

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what was the impact of Reagan on living

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  • rising interest rates= higher rents and mortgages
  • repossession of houses increased
  • ‘planned shrinkage’ worsened
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what was the impact of Reagan on working

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  • deregulation on working conditions= hours increased, less time for leisure
  • working mothers had to have low- income jobs due to children
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what was the impact of Reagan on working young people

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  • two tier wage structure
  • young people had worse contracts than older people working at the same company for longer
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How many discrimination lawsuits did Nixon file?

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24

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How many discrimination lawsuits did Reagan file?

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5

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what did Reagan restrict in non English speakers

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reduced 40% of funding to bilingual education

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How did Reagan address the African American rights at work

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  • black Americans only employed to fit a ‘quota’. were not elevated in the workplace after
24
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did Civil Rights progress?

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NO, struggled to regain ground

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impact of Reagan on educated and non educated B.A’s

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  • educated could get ahead- especially women that filled two minority quotas
  • uneducated went under

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