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5th Amendment and property rights
protects against abuse of government authority in a legal procedure. -
Ronald Reagan
onald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California, and a radio, film and television actor. -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and prior to this, was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974 -
Sam Walton
Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Clu -
Jimmy Carter
ames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office -
Sndra Day O' Conor
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired United States Supreme Court justice. She served as an Associate Justice from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement from the Court in 2006. S -
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. -
Bill Graham
ill Graham was an American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in a helicopter crash. -
Endangered Species Act,
igned into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation. -
Lionel Sosa,
Lionel is the founder of Sosa, Bromley, Aguilar & Associates, now Bromley Communications, that grew to become the largest hispanic agency in the U.S, Lionel was named one of the "25 most influential Hispanics in America" by Time Magazine and is a member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame. -
Conservatism in the 1980’s
While the conservative tradition has played a major role in American politics and culture since the American Revolution, the organized conservative movement has played a key role in politics only since the 1950s -
American movies and cultural diffusion
Direct diffusion of culture occurs when two distinct cultures are very close together. Over time, direct contact between the two leads to an intermingling of the cultures -
Nixon and China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) -
Watergate Scandal
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), -
Community Reinvestment Act
is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods -
The “Moral Majority”
The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right. It was founded in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis and President Carter’s response
was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days (November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981), after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran.[President Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy, adding that "the United States will not yield to blackmail. -
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system. -
Four Pillars of Reaganomics,
The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and control the money supply in order to reduce inflation. -
US Israel relations
rael–United States relations are an important factor in the United States government's overall policy in the Middle East, and Congress has placed considerable importance on the maintenance of a close and supportive relationship -
Nancy Reagan and the “Just Say No”
was an advertising campaign, part of the U.S. "War on Drugs", prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s, to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no. -
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist
