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• Conservative Republicans sweep the historic 1980 election.
Goldwater remained popular in Arizona, and in the 1968 Senate election he was reelected (this time to the seat of retiring Senator Carl Hayden). He was subsequently reelected in 1974 and 1980. The 1974 election saw Goldwater easily reelected. His final campaign in 1980 was close, with Goldwater winning in a near draw against Democrat challenger Bill Schulz. Goldwater said later that the close result convinced him not to run again.[19] -
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CHAPTER 33 – THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION (1980-1992)
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• The American Liberty League is founded to defend conservative values of private property and individual enterprise.
was an American political organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats to oppose the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was active for just two years. Following the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936, it sharply reduced its activities and disbanded in 1940 -
• Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected as a moderate Republican
Republican Eisenhower won the presidantail election by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition. -
• Barry Goldwater runs on a conservative platform and loses to LBJ in a landslide.
Goldwater remained popular in Arizona, and in the 1968 Senate election he was reelected (this time to the seat of retiring Senator Carl Hayden). He was subsequently reelected in 1974 and 1980. The 1974 election saw Goldwater easily reelected. His final campaign in 1980 was close, with Goldwater winning in a near draw against Democrat challenger Bill Schulz. Goldwater said later that the close result convinced him not to run again. -
• The Supreme Court angers social conservatives with its decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade.
Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 to uphold McCorvey's lawsuit, known as Roe v. Wade,chaged Texas abortion laws along withother laws around the U.S. -
• Roosevelt’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court causes conservative backlash in Congress
Roosevelt alienated many conservative Democrats, in 1937, by his unexpected plan to “pack” the Supreme Court via the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. Following a sharp recession that hit early in 1938, major strikes all over the country, and Roosevelt's failed efforts to radically reorganize the Supreme Court and federal courts, the GOP gained 75 House seats in 1938. Conservative Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans led by Senator Robert A. Taft to create the conservat
