Conservative Movement Dbq

As the American economy and society evolved, conservatives seized the opportunity to strengthen its influence on the nation’s culture and politics. A newfound enthusiasm for religion led to the cooperative effort to encourage continuities in cultural norms and expectations. On the other hand, the presence of conservative policies and goals in the government gave way to significant changes within the nation’s political system. Similarly, as influence of the Sunbelt increased, its occupants called for recognition of conservative demands, consequently shifting the political balance of the country. The rise of the modern conservative movement played a significant role in the attempt to maintain traditional cultural views through religious appeal,

The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, introduced in Document Three, was drafted with the purpose of encouraging economic growth, strategically limiting taxes in ways such that the wealthy disproportionately benefitted in hopes that said recipients of these advantages would put their surplus money into the nation’s economy. This Reaganomics policy corresponded to the neoconservative President Ronald Reagan’s promise to let taxpayers keep more of their money, thus decreasing the government’s financial supply, which would in turn reduce government spending and power. This historic tax and budget reduction set a tone for the rest of the Reagan presidency, whose advocation of the conservatives’ ideal limited government marked the end of new Great Society-like social programs, therefore contributing to the change of American politics to pursue economic growth without government interference. In the 1980s, the increasing federal deficits, shown in the graph of Document Seven, alarmed Americans and well as the Reagan administration. These historically exorbitant national deficits, which reached over 150 trillion dollars more than any other point in American fiduciary history, were found to be caused in part by entitlement programs, such as Social Security, as health care costs increased with the age. This concern led to Reagan creating even more political changes when he contradicted his campaign promise to lower taxes in effort to compromise with Democrats in Congress, increasing taxes by scaling back on previously approved fiscal deductions for businesses so that the government would still be able to sponsor and stabilize the highly favored, yet expensive Social Security Act, as described by Paul Krugman is his opinion piece The Great Taxer, observed in Document Six. This bipartisan