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• 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 ; in the 1968 Senate election he was reelected. He was reelected in 1974 and 1980. The 1974 election he was reelected again. in 1980 was he had his final campeign with Goldwater winning 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. -
• Conservative Republicans sweep the historic 1980 election.
presidential election of 1980, Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan and Republican Congressman John B. Anderson. Reagan, using the Iran hostage situation to his advantage won by a landslide. -
• The American Liberty League is founded to defend conservative values of private property and individual enterprise.
The American Liberty League was an American political organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats to oppose the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
• Roosevelt’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court causes conservative backlash in Congress.
Republicans had lost seats in both houses of Congress in 1930, 1932, 1934, and 1936. Their totals were a mere 88 seats in the House and 16 seats in the Senate. Following President Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide reelection in 1936, he attempted to pack the Supreme Court with six new justices to neutralize conservative Justices who struck down some of his New Deal programs as unconstitutional. It received backlash from his own party as an overreach of executive power.
