The Conservative 1980's

Essential Question:   What is conservatism?

The U.S. shifts from the right to the left of the political spectrum through out history.

Read and compare how the 1980's moved towards a conservative political agenda was much like the nation in 2004 with the tea party movement influencing politics.

1980-1992

The New Right emerges-  http://www.ushistory.org/us/58e.asp link on New right of the 1980's.

Two Presidents

Reagan and Bush

1. Social Issues struggle under a conservative wave in the 80's

2. Economics

2004-2016

The Tea Party movement- 1980s teaparty conservatives.pdf  link on the background of the Tea Party.

meaning making and application

How is the wave of conservatism in the 1980's similar and different to the conservative wave in the 2000's.

What happened in the prior decade to cause a more conservative wave of politics in both cases?

What effect will it have on the decades following the movement?