Decades of Change: Sociocultural Shifts in American History

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From the 1950’s through the 1990’s, social and cultural issues impacted American history in a major way. America’s history was influenced by several events that happened over this time period. All of the events that I will talk about will prove how gender issues, the 1960’s counterculture, debates over immigration and multiculturalism, and the creation of “two America’s impacted U.S history. It also will explain why I believe some of the events from the 1950s to the 1990s played a big part in US history, while others may think otherwise. Women play a big part in today’s history because of gender issues. During WWII, while men were busy fighting, women was forced to fill the jobs of men. This only happened because WWII was a major effort to …show more content…

Carter’s plan was to increase resources to have more control on the Southern borders and other entry points to prevent illegal immigration. He promoted that the government stayed on their toes for undocumented aliens, so they could improve the economy so there wasn’t any smuggling. These actions that took place plays a distinct role in America and helping solve one of the most domestic problem and that is having millions of undocumented immigrates. Over the years illegal immigrates have breached the systems immigration law, which left American’s without jobs and increased the burden financially on many …show more content…

In the 1990’s there was a struggle to define America and there was a huge difference from America politics and culture. The main issues that were being focused on and heavily debated were abortion, gun policies, separation of church and state, recreational drugs, privacy, censorship and homosexuality (Nelson Tran, Cultural Wars of 1990’s). The public school curriculum was also being debated in the 1990’s. Society started to divide and group up depending on what there believes were. The groups are definite mostly by moral world views, rather than by religion, ethnicity, social class, or even political affiliation. The cultural wars had major impacts on national politics in the United States in the 1990’s. All of these issues during the time may have caused then-President George H.W. Bush the chance of reelection and helped his replacement, Bill Clinton, win the reelection in

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