THE EVOLUTION OF CONSERVATISM

By grandotravis
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected as a moderate Republican

    Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected as a moderate Republican

    Republican Eisenhower won the presidantail election by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition.
  • Barry Goldwater runs on a conservative platform and loses to LBJ in a landslide.

    Barry Goldwater runs on a conservative platform and loses to LBJ in a landslide.

    Goldwater ; in the 1968 Senate election he was reelected. He was reelected in 1974 and 1980. The 1974 election he was reelected again. in 1980 was he had his final campeign with Goldwater winning against Democrat challenger Bill Schulz. Goldwater said later that the close result convinced him not to run again.
  • The Supreme Court angers social conservatives with its decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade

    The Supreme Court angers social conservatives with its decision to legalize abortion in Roe v. Wade

    Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 to uphold McCorvey's lawsuit, known as Roe v. Wade,chaged Texas abortion laws along withother laws around the U.S.
  • Conservative Republicans sweep the historic 1980 election

    Conservative Republicans sweep the historic 1980 election

    Was the presidential election of 1980, Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan and Republican Congressman John B. Anderson. Reagan, using the Iran hostage situation to his advantage won by a landslide.
  • The American Liberty League is founded to defend conservative values of private property and individual enterprise.

    The American Liberty League is founded to defend conservative values of private property and individual enterprise.

    The American Liberty League was an American political organization formed in 1934 by conservative Democrats to oppose the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Roosevelt’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court causes conservative backlash in Congress.

    Roosevelt’s attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court causes conservative backlash in Congress.

    The only modern attempt to alter the size of the Court occurred in 1937, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to "pack" the Court by trying to add justices more sympathetic to his political ideals. Between 1935 and 1937, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional numerous pieces of Roosevelt's New Deal program that attempted to regulate the national economy. Most of the conservative judges who voted against the New Deal statutes were over the age of seventy.