Reagan 1st Term 1981-1996
Reagan's first Term 1981-1996
However many of these policies Reagn continued, did not do as much in second term, a 'Lame Duck'
Positive aspects:
- Tax Reform
- America- Soviet relations
- Popular with New Right
- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 13-05-13 19:03
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- Reagan
- Domestic
- Less Gov
- Cuts in Federal spending
- Didn't cut as much as wanted to (Department of Ed,)
- Reduced staff 25% & black grants down 63%
- Deregulation
- Signed Bill to increase Federal insurance avaliable to savings-and-loan
- To use in range of investements
- Power to state & deregulation took place
- Signed Bill to increase Federal insurance avaliable to savings-and-loan
- Cuts in Federal spending
- Congress
- Prepared to negotiate, talk & discuss
- 1984 Many bills over-righted & many felt Reagan fhad no path
- Brought together congress
- "Lame Duck"
- Congress re-assertedpower
- Brought together Congress
- Republicans
- Had no place in Congress or Senate
- Less Gov
- Social
- Religious Right
- Failed to endorse Family Protection Act
- Bill to ban abortion & allowed ptayer in schools refused ny 2/3 of congress
- Tax breaks for wives & mothers at home, tuition tax credit, single- sex sport & denial of contraception unless parents notified
- Womem
- Division among women over abortion, sexul harrasment, wife battering & only 75% of minimum wage
- religious defeat over ERA & women liberals
- "women liberals want to be girls again"
- Stand-ins at clinics & even bombed some thousands jailed
- Ethnic Minorities
- Social Programmes
- Suffered under Reagan
- Rich & poor gap increased
- Homelessness from 200,000 to 400,000
- Did nothing to help
- act worse
- 'Illiberal on race'
- African Americans thought
- Social Programmes
- Asian Americans
- Chinese man clubbed to death
- Murders only 3 years in jail
- Civil liberties act 1988 (Japanese [red dress act])
- Chinese man clubbed to death
- Black Progress
- Mayers in Chicago & Philadelphia to death
- Black cabinet member
- Madea MLK day
- Opposedbut said nothing as would lose him votes
- Religious Right
- Foreign
- Iran Contra
- Profits diverted to contra rebels in Nicaragua
- triggered uproar
- Investigations held. highly critical of his foreign policies
- Shipped arms to Iran in attempts to free hostages
- Approval fell 64% - 44%
- American- Soviet relations
- Cold War ended just as he left presidency
- Planned & developed secretly
- Launched strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)
- 'Star Wars'
- Had previously described soviets as evil, no friends!
- INF affair
- Nuclear Arms reduction treaty
- Iran Contra
- Economy
- Tax Reforms
- Feared by passed
- Helped oil, gas, real estate & agricultural industries
- Wealthy could no longer be taxed as high as 50%
- Reagonomics
- Improvements through trade input & output
- Benefited business and big industries,
- The rich got richer & the poor got poorer
- Balancing Budget
- HUGE dept left at end of his term
- Failed to balance as tax cuts & defence expenditure
- Nation debt trippled to over $2.6 trillion
- Tax Reforms
- Domestic
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