1. why was there growth in economic inequality in the 1980s? how did various groups see the relationship between women's rights and freedom differently?

a. Reagan's policies, rising stock prices, and deindustrialization resulted in considerable rise in economic inequality

b. Most income spending occurred on luxury goods, real estate speculation, and corporate buyouts instead of productive investments and charity

c. Jim Crow ended in many workplaces and unions, but it occurred just as 100s of 1000s of black workers lost their jobs when factories closed their doors.

a. Equal Rights Amendment - moved family values to the center of conservative politics

i. Argued by many in protests from those who claimed it would discredit the role of wife and homemaker

ii. Supporters - said amendment offered guarantee of women's freedom in the public sphere

iii. Those opposing it - said freedom for women still resided in divinely appointed roles of wife and mother

b. Abortion controversy

i. Compromise impossible between position of life beginning at conception/abortion is murder and feminist insistence that women's right to control her body includes right to safe legal abortion

abraham lincoln  (february 12, 1809  – april 15, 1865) was an american statesman, politician, and lawyer who served as the 16th  president of the united states  from 1861 until  his assassination  in april 1865. lincoln led the nation through the  american civil war, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.[2][3]  he preserved the  union,  abolished slavery, strengthened the  federal government, and modernized  the u.s. economy.