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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
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President Nixon
• Vietnam and Watergate
• The End of the Golden Age
• The Rising Tide of Conservatism
• The Reagan Revolution
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Ronald Reagan addressing the Republican National
Convention
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President Nixon
 Focus Question:
What were the major policies of the
Nixon administration on social and
economic issues?
President Nixon:
Domestic Policies
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Nixon’s Domestic Policies
President Nixon:
Welfare and Race
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Nixon and Welfare
Nixon and Race
Map 26.1 Center of Population, 1790–2000
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Richard Nixon (on the right) and former
Alabama Governor George Wallace
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President Nixon:
Courts
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The Burger Court
The Court and Affirmative Action
President Nixon:
Sexual Revolution
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The Continuing Sexual Revolution
Table 26.1 Rate of Divorce: Divorces of Existing
Marriages per 1,000 New Marriages, 1950–1980
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Figure 26.1 Median Age at First Marriage, 1947–1981
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Daryl Koehn celebrating being chosen as one of the
first group of women allowed to study at Oxford University
as a Rhodes Scholar
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President Nixon:
Foreign Policy
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Nixon and Détente
Richard Nixon at a banquet during his 1972 visit to China
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Vietnam and
Watergate
 Focus Question:
How did Vietnam and the Watergate
scandal affect popular trust in the
government?
Vietnam and
Watergate: Nixon’s
Plan
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Nixon and Vietnam
Demonstration at Kent State University
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Dramatic demonstrations protesting the Vietnam War
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Vietnam and
Watergate
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The End of the Vietnam War
Buttons and flags for sale at a 1970s rally linking support
for the Vietnam War and patriotism
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Vietnam and
Watergate: Scandal
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Watergate
Vietnam and
Watergate: Nixon
Resigns
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Nixon’s Fall
Herbert Block’s 1973 cartoon depicting Americans’
disbelief at the Watergate scandal
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The End of the Golden
Age
 Focus Question:
In what ways did the opportunities of
most Americans diminish in the 1970s?
The End of the Golden
Age: The Economy
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The Decline of Manufacturing
Stagflation
Table 26.2 The Misery Index, 1970–1980
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Oil Crisis of 1973–1974
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The End of the Golden
Age: Jobs
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The Beleaguered Social Compact
Labor on the Defensive
The World Trade Center under construction
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Figure 26.2 Real Average Weekly Wages, 1955–1990
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The End of the Golden
Age: Ford and Carter
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Ford as President
The Carter Administration
Carter and the Economic Crisis
Map 26.2 The Presidential Election of 1976
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President Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” program
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The deregulation of the airline industry produced lower
fares, but also a drastic decline in service.
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The 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant
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The End of the Golden
Age: Human Rights
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The Emergence of Human Rights Politics
Celebration of the signing of the 1979 peace
treaty between Israel and Egypt
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The End of the Golden
Age: Crisis
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The Iran Crisis and Afghanistan
American Hostages Being Paraded
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The Rising Tide of
Conservatism
 Focus Question:
What were the roots of the rise of
conservatism in the 1970s?
The Rising Tide of
Conservatism: Religion
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The Religious Right
The Rising Tide of
Conservatism: Women’s
Rights
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The Battle over the Equal Rights
Amendment
The Abortion Controversy
Phyllis Schlafly campaigning against the Equal
Rights Amendment
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Doug Marlette’s cartoon commenting on the continuing
gap in pay between men and women
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A 1979 anti-abortion rally on the sixth anniversary of
Roe v. Wade
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Women demonstrating in support for abortion rights
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The Rising Tide of
Conservatism: Politics
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The Tax Revolt
The Election of 1980
Map 26.3 The Presidential Election of 1980
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A delegate to the Republican national convention
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The Reagan
Revolution
 Focus Question:
How did the Reagan presidency affect
Americans both at home and abroad?
The Reagan
Revolution: Freedom
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Reagan and American Freedom
Reagan as a Salesman, 1958
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The Reagan
Revolution: Economy
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Reaganomics
Reagan and Labor
Bethlehem Steel Works
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A homeless Los Angeles family
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The Reagan
Revolution: Jobs
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The Problem of Inequality
The Second Gilded Age
Figure 26.3 Changes in Families’ Real Income,
1980–1990
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Nancy Reagan
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The Reagan
Revolution:
Restructuring
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Conservatives and Reagan
Reagan and the Cold War
Map 26.4 The United States in the Caribbean and
Central America, 1954–2004
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Hollywood joined enthusiastically in the revived
Cold War.
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The Reagan
Revolution: Foreign
Relations
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The Iran-Contra Affair
Reagan and Gorbachev
President Reagan’s 1988 visit to Moscow
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The Reagan
Revolution:
Inequalities
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Reagan’s Legacy
The Election of 1988
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The inauguration of George H. W. Bush, January 1989
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Review
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President Nixon
Focus Question: What were the major policies of the Nixon
administration on social and economic issues?
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Vietnam and Watergate
Focus Question: How did Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affect
popular trust in the government?
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The End of the Golden Age
Focus Question: In what ways did the opportunities of most
Americans diminish in the 1970s?
Review Continued
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The Rising Tide of Conservatism
Focus Question: What were the roots of the rise of conservatism in the
1970s?
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The Reagan Revolution
Focus Question: How did the Reagan presidency affect Americans
both at home and abroad?
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Globalization and Its
Discontents, 1989–2000
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The Post–Cold War World
A New Economy?
Culture Wars
Impeachment and the Election of 2000
Freedom and the New Century
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