he rise conservatism embodied in the candidacy of Ronald Reagan should be examined in light of events dating to the mid-1970s.
In the wake of the end of the Vietnam War, and with the domestic political turmoil still fresh from the war's divisiveness and from the Watergate scandal, the country was deeply split along ideological lines. Even within the Republican Party, conservatives were deeply divided between moderates and those further to the right.
<span>Alcohol was prohibited in the United States throughout the 1920s, beginning on January 17, 1920. The 1925 Scopes Trial in the United States was about the teaching of evolutionism versus creationism in schools, with William Jennings Bryan arguing on behalf of creationism, and Clarence Darrow representing John Thomas Scopes in defense of evolutionism. The Wall Street Crash in October of 1929 began the Great Depression in the United States.</span>
The Quaker maxim "In souls there is no sex" helps explain 1. the degree to which Quakers allowed women to assume positions of religious leadership in the seventeenth century. 2. the fact that Quakers generally frowned upon the customary gender structure of their own day and time.
Because they were better educated, mainly home schooled away from the poverty or distractions.
<span>Mattathias the Hasmonean.</span>
