US History › Section P · From the Reagan era to today › Topic P.2
Political and cultural shifts in the 1980s
Alongside Reagan's economic changes, the 1980s brought fierce arguments over family, sexuality, religion, crime and race, later called the culture wars. These debates, over the Equal Rights Amendment, AIDS and the war on drugs, still shape American politics.
In this topic
- What were the culture wars?
- Building a conservative movement
- The defeat of the ERA
- Women in politics and the gender gap
- The AIDS epidemic
- Fighting back against AIDS
- The war on drugs
- Worked example: tracing the rise of mass incarceration
- Black visibility and economic strain
- Worked example: why did the ERA fail?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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