AP U.S. History · Summary

Unit 9 summary

1. The New Right joined economic conservatives, religious conservatives and anticommunists; Reagan cut tax rates and regulation, but federal spending and debt kept growing.
2. Both parties moved toward the center on some issues in the 1990s, as Clinton's welfare reform shows, while the parties grew more divided overall.
3. Globalization and new technology created wealth and new industries but cost many factory jobs, weakened unions and widened income gaps.
4. Immigration after 1965 came mostly from Latin America and Asia, and debates over unauthorized immigration continued after the 1986 law.
5. The Cold War ended through several causes together, leaving the United States the only superpower and unsure of its new role.
6. After September 11, 2001, the war on terror reshaped policy abroad, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at home, through new surveillance powers and debates over civil liberties.