THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGANS FOREIGN POLICY
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portrayed the West as a victim of government control
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favored restrictions on new commercial development in the West
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complained the federal government ignored the American West
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mobilized in favor of stricter immigration controls in the West
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were inclined to support liberal politicians
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1970s brought the “Sagebrush Rebellion, ” a period that saw especially tense relations between cattlemen and federal land managers. The tension increased following the 1974 lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council against the secretary of the interior.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sagebrush Rebellion was a movement in the Western United States in the 1970s and the 1980s that sought major changes to federal land control, use, and disposal policy in 13 western states in which federal land holdings include between 20% and 85% of a state’s area.
Detailed explanation-3: -What sparked it: Many miners, loggers and ranchers of the West were rebelling against “federal colonialism” that came in the form of environmental laws, from the Wilderness Act to the Endangered Species Act to, especially, the Federal Land Policy Management Act.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sagebrush Rebellion began in Nevada and rapidly spread throughout the West during the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. Broadly speaking, it is the movement to transfer public lands from the federal government to the individual states.