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Chapter 24: The Age of Limits

Chapter 24: The Age of Limits. Section 1: The Nixon Administration. Pages: 794 - 801. PAGES 794-796 COVERED IN YOUR BELL RINGER FROM 1-10-2008. NEW FEDERALISM. Richard Nixon … Against LBJ’s Great Society Programs

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Chapter 24: The Age of Limits

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  1. Chapter 24: The Age of Limits Section 1: The Nixon Administration Pages: 794 - 801

  2. PAGES 794-796 COVERED IN YOUR BELL RINGER FROM 1-10-2008

  3. NEW FEDERALISM • Richard Nixon… • Against LBJ’s Great Society Programs • Instead, decrease size and influence of Federal government and give more powers to state and local governments • Revenue Sharing – state and local government spend federal dollars as they saw fit

  4. 1972 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NIXON'S SOUTHERN STRATEGY

  5. SOUTHERN STRATEGY • Nixon tried to attract Southern conservative Democrats by appealing to their unhappiness with federal desegregation policies and a liberal Supreme Court

  6. A NEW SOUTH • BY 1968 many white southern Democrats become Republican • Didn’t like Great Society and Civil Rights (liberals)

  7. NIXON SLOWS INTERGRATION • Nixon reverses several civil rights policies • Department of (HEW) to delay desegregation • Opposed extension of Voting Rights Act of 1965 (page 104)

  8. CONFRONTING A STAGNANT ECONOMY

  9. STAGFLATION • 1967-1973 had high inflation and high unemployment

  10. OPEC • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries • Oil producing countries of the Middle East • Jack-Up Oil Prices

  11. NIXON VISITS CHINA • 1972 • THIS WAS A REVERSAL OF HOW WE FELT IN 1949 WHEN WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT

  12. NIXON TRAVELS TO MOSCOW • SOVIET UNION • SALT I TREATY -

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