Class Starter: In today's money, how expensive was a gallon of gas 100 years ago?
1.How accurate was your prediction?
2.Does the data surprise you?
3.What trends do you see?
4.What are the effects of these trends?
5.What accounts for the spike in the late 1970s?
6.What accounts for the spike in the 2000s?
7.What accounts for the decline(s) in the 2010s?
8.How do you think this information played a role in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980?
Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech
Right here is an abridged version of Nixon's speech resigning the presidency. Or you can watch or read the full address here.
Questions for Consideration:
- What are Richard Nixon’s reasons for resigning the presidency?
- Does Richard Nixon apologize?
- How does Richard Nixon portray his role in the national and international events of the 1960s and 1970s?
- What does Richard Nixon take credit for and what does he consider unfinished?
- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger boldly predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a great president and that Watergate would be relegated to a "minor footnote." Has this prediction been validated?
- Did the pardon by Gerald Ford heal the “long national nightmare” or cause more division?
- What do you make of Nixon’s presidency?
- The following came out of the Nixon Administration:
- withdrawal from Vietnam
- end of the draft
- formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- arms control with the Soviet Union (USSR)
- diplomacy with Communist China
- expansion of civil rights programs like affirmative action
- proposals (did not pass) to expand access to health care (way beyond the Affordable Care Act)
- withdrawal from Vietnam
Word of the Day: impotence/impotency USE DEFINITION A!!!
- Define it
- Give an example of a country that exhibits impotency
- Who, or what group of people, is politically impotent right now in the U.S.?
"National Malaise" Speech
Here is the full text of President Carter's speech on the problems the U.S. is facing...
but we're just going to focus on this part:
but we're just going to focus on this part:
Reaction to the Speech
Take a different section of the chart here to analyze the public's reaction to his speech.
On the whole, was this speech positive or negative for Carter's image as president?
Take a different section of the chart here to analyze the public's reaction to his speech.
On the whole, was this speech positive or negative for Carter's image as president?
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Closer: Why did many Americans suffer a "crisis of confidence" in the 1970s? Who would you say was to blame?
- Make a claim here!
- Support your claim with TWO pieces of accurate and relevant information.
- Use reasoning to explain why your evidence supports your claim.
- Respond to an opposing or alternative perspective.
Next Class: Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1980-1992
Homework
Ch. 38 Homework Guide due next class
Quiz next class: 1960s-1970s
Quiz next class: 1960s-1970s