Module 10 Lesson 4 - Inquire & Watch

 

Inquire: Ronald Reagan

From Hollywood to D.C.

Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981 with strongly conservative values but experience in moderate politics. He appealed to moderates and conservatives anxious about social change and the seeming loss of American power and influence on the world stage. Leading the so-called Reagan Revolution, he appealed to voters with the promise that the principles of conservatism could halt and revert the social and economic changes of the last generation. Reagan won the White House by citing big government and social reform attempts as the problem, not the solution. He was able to capture the political capital of an unsettled national mood and, in the process, helped set an agenda and policies that would affect his successors and the political landscape of the nation.

Big Question

How did Reaganomics influence the economy as a whole?

 

 

Watch: Assassination Attempt

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