Us Hist Ch 40

How did it change lives?

 Office--ITC

 Home--reading

 Entertainment

 Education

 Science

During this period

 More and more women moved into the workforce

 Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment

 Supreme Court declared the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade

Boomer gen. saw reactions in this period like

 Birth death

 Growth of number of unmarried couples

 Explosion in divorce rate

 Idea that sexual intercourse was a free good

Evangelicals of this period

 Had strong well financed messages that were often linked with television.

Jefferson dreamed of a nation of farmers

 In 1800, 90% of people lived and worked in farms

 By 1970, the percent living on farms was down to 2.3%

 In the colonial period, one person could barely feed themselves, let alone their families. In 1970 one person could feed say 50,

 Farming was a hard challenging life, and many people abandoned the tradition

 Farms became large agribusinesses.

Immigration (both legal and illegal) came largely from

 Central

 South America and

 From Asia

What can we gather from the continued inflow?

 Immigrants believed that the land they are coming into must be better than their homeland

Nixon had inherited the worst inflationary spiral since WWII, and he failed to handle the challenge. He had no plan to deal with the economy, so forces kept building up, like a volcano.

What was the evidence of the damage being done?

 Inflation: 1974 12%, 1975 11% and in 1979 and 1980 13%,

This led to unemployment, and illiquidity. Under Ford, unemployemeny almost reached 11%.

Reagan faced the same challenges as his three predecessors

 A balky economy

 A tinderbox in the middle east