Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

Document Links:

Document 27.5 Proposition 13, California, 1978

Document 27.6 Phyllis Schlafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” 1972

Document 27.7 Paul Weyrich, Building the Moral Majority, 1979

Document 27.8 Walter Mondale, Criticism of Reaganomics, 1984

Document 27.9 A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Moral Majority Threatens Freedom, 1981

Interpret the Evidence

  1. What were the goals of Proposition 13 (Document 27.5), and how do its provisions attempt to achieve them?

  2. Why does Phyllis Schlafly (Document 27.6) contend that American women do not need liberating? How, according to her, are women in the United States different from other women around the world?

  3. What are the perceived dangers that united religious conservatives in the Moral Majority (Document 27.7)?

  4. How would Walter Mondale (Document 27.8) criticize the principles behind Proposition 13 (Document 27.5)?

  5. Compare the ideas of A. Bartlett Giamatti (Document 27.9) and the Moral Majority (Document 27.7). What are the areas of disagreement and agreement?

Put It in Context

How did the New Right shape the political and social landscapes of the United States in the latter decades of the twentieth century?

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