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| 10023624271 | Evangelical christianity | Lived by the bible, try to covert by spreading the message These where the religious right right wing with political views- private property, conservative values, women inferior to men | 0 | |
| 10023657263 | Religious right | Didn't believe people where full americans if they were not concerned about faith Say communists causing problems Resented supreme court ruling that could no longer be prayers in school Felt republican party more part of them Johnson winning made them feel they had totally lost everything Nixon seen as there way forward, they helped him deal with vietnam Carter regarded as biggest asset, spoke about how jesus was important to him | 1 | |
| 10023725350 | Religious right | Saw abortion as human right issue Wanted carter out of whitehouse to have somebody more powerful in supporting them. Reagan said he supported and endorsed them fully Right to bring prayers back declined as said other things were more important | 2 | |
| 10023758054 | Influence of Gay Rights | Saw it as very wrong to have two men in a relationship Believed being gay went against bible teaching Opposition to gays fuelled by the rise of AIDS as higher proportion of gay men contracted it Believed AIDS sent by god to punish gay people | 3 | |
| 10023848001 | Influence on women rights | Believed in traditional family values, mother stays home and father earns money Anti-abortion saw it as murdering babies, right to life campaigns had 11 million supporters from wide variety of religions, lead by Phyllis Schlafly Against equal rights amendment Formed concerned women for America, opposed abortion and no-fault divorce in the mid 1980s, 500,000 members | 4 | |
| 10023885501 | Influence on drugs | Just say no campaign in 1982, led by Nancy Reagan, to discourage young people and children from taking drugs Visited rehab centres and met with national federation of parents for drug free youth Travelled 250,000 miles and visited 65 cities in 33 states with message Reagan signed national crusade for drug- free america and anti-drug abuse bill cocaine use bu high school students dropped by one-third from 6.2% in 1986 to 4.3% in 1987 | 5 | |
| 10023956868 | Influence on popular culture | Televangelists Reverend Pat Robertson ran christian broadcasting network, also ran for republican nomination for president Reverend Jim Bakker founded praise the lord ministry in 1974, own television network and theme park | 6 | |
| 10023979683 | Did not influence women | Reagan recommended Sandra Day O'connor for supreme court, she was pro-abortion and activist judge she was pro-choice and said it was choice of individual women right to life amendment does not get passed, lots of support but doesn't get passed Did not limit abortion rights but Roe Vs Wade not repealed No-fault divorce failed- USA has highest divorce rate | 7 | |
| 10024051871 | Did not influence gay rights | Gay community became a lot more open and visible, openly gay and bisexual Nancy Reagan publicly supports the use of condoms | 8 | |
| 10024065551 | Did not influence drugs | Simplified it too much and didn't see the addiction side Faced criticism because of this and for criminalising addiction, see increased rise in amount of black people in prison who were more likely to take drugs focussed too much on black community Whole campaigned damaged Nancy Reagan | 9 |
