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Week 15

During the recession, Obama continued Bush’s policies of bailouts for financial institutions. This goes to the economic principle that stabilizing markets was important for economic recovery. On page 593, Levy says, “Meanwhile, through the TARP, the Treasury Department injected public capital into the largest US banks.” This helped to slow the crisis and promote publicContinue reading “Week 15”

Week 14

The United States began to change the approach to how they dealt with climate change. The article states, “These tensions involved the priorities of domestic economic stability and environmental protection over both international development…” Therefore, this resulted in divisions in how Europeans and Americans saw how markets should regulate climate change which impacted the hesitanceContinue reading “Week 14”

Sagebrush Rebellion

The Sagebrush Rebellion occurred over the issues of public lands and state’s rights. Regan’s emerging thought involved the idea of  “less government, wise use of lands, and movement towards the private sector.” The Sagebrush Rebellion, then, were political movements regarding federal control over public lands. The overall goal was to give the states and localContinue reading “Sagebrush Rebellion”

Week 11 Falwell

Jerry Falwell played a key role in the foundation of the Moral Majority. Williams’s states, “… the leading national Religious Right organization of the early 1980s offers a case study to explain why white evangelicals became full-fledged converts to the GOP not only on “moral” issues but matters of economics and national defense.” This demonstratesContinue reading “Week 11 Falwell”

Week 9: Recycled Working Class

The working class being “recycled” refers to the working-class population relying on welfare and public institutions to make ends meet. This is seen in the quote: “Deindustrialization threw the working-class population back onto the welfare state for survival, testing its component institutions, public and private…” The market would need to see investment into a newContinue reading “Week 9: Recycled Working Class”

Week 8 – Youth and War

Both Wallace and Nixon appealed to different groups in the American electorate. For example, this is seen in their appeals to the “silent majority.” George Wallace capitalized on the perceived sharp division between the elite and the ‘hardhats’. He said that the hardhats were this pro-war and patriotic group, and therefore, he emphasized his oppositionContinue reading “Week 8 – Youth and War”

week 7 Vietnam

Appy argues that Vietnam was a working class war because the conflict disproportionately impacted poor people. Appy states, “Roughly 80 percent came from working-class and poor backgrounds. Vietnam… was a working-class war.” The conflicted funneled in men from working-class jobs especially because their peers typically went to college and were then exempt from the draft.Continue reading “week 7 Vietnam”

Theoharris Reading Week 5

Civil Rights struggles extend into the North as well as the South but how the issues presented themselves was unique to either region. Theoharris describes how school officials described Mallory as “dangerous” and fell victim to stereotyping her as the angry black woman (41). This example demonstrates how racial issues were present in the NorthContinue reading “Theoharris Reading Week 5”

South Dakota and Cold War Practices

When Eisenhower described the military-industrial complex, he described a system in which military and defense spending is a focus as the military would drive the industry. This can be seen in the article as it says, “Echoing the national narrative of base closing and deactivations, the loss of military installations portended economic adjustment” (Heefner 10).Continue reading “South Dakota and Cold War Practices”