Write 5-6 sentences for each
Textbooks
Foner, Eric, Give Me Liberty, Volume Two, Sixth Edition, 2020.
Foner, Eric, Voices of Freedom: Volume Two, Sixth Edition, 2020.
Carter on Human Rights
1. What is Carter’s stance on Human Rights and what difficulties does he face in carry these ideas out? Explain.
Falwell, question 1
2. What does Falwell see as the major threats to moral standards in the 1970s?
Reagan, question 1
3. What is Regan’s definition of freedom?
Reagan and the Cold War
4. How and why did Reagan fight the Cold War differently than Carter, Ford, and Nixon? Was it effective? Explain.
End of the Golden Age
5. How and why did the “golden age” for the American economy end in the 1970s? What were the problems and what were the solutions at the time?
Rights and the 1970s
6. What were the major gains and continuing struggles in terms of rights for minorities and women in the 1970s?
Nixon’s Domestic Policies
7. What were Nixon’s domestic policies and why do some seem quite liberal and others seem quite conservative? What was Nixon’s political ideology?
