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Reagan Second Term Chart - Coggle Diagram
Reagan Second Term Chart
Sexual Orientation
Reagan did not much to help with aids
Protest for gay rights
Unequal Wealth
Wealthiest Americans tripled their wealth
top 20% got 24% richer
lower 20% got wealthier by 4%
got poorer
Patriotic Renewa;
Reagan wanted to return pride to America
1984 summer games
1986 Centennial of Statue of Liberty
1987 200th anniversary of constitution
Entitlements
Cost of social security, medicaid and medicare all skyrocket in the 1980's
Went against Reagan's view of small government and less domestic spending
civil rights
Extended voting rights Act
More African AMericans being elected
First Black Mayors
1983 - MLK day
Women's Movement
Women consistently getting higher level jobs
More women getting careers in medicine and law
ERA died
Anti Abortion groups tried to get Roe V Wade Overturned
Supreme Court
1981 - Sandra Day O'Conner - first female SC justice
S and L Scandal
Reagan Deregulates banks
this allowed banks to give out riskier loans and investments
People started to default on the loans given out
S and L's billions of dollars because people weren't paying their loans back
Reagan forced to bail out the S and L's with taxpayer money