Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter
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Election of 1976
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Energy

• Source Office of Trade and Economic Development,
  Washington state. Available at
  http//www.cted.wa.gov/energy/archive/FILES/PRFL/d
  ocs/key09/k09page.htm

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Inflation

• A Case Study The March Inflation Rate - April
  19, 2006. Source Econed.org, available at
  http//www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson
  EM685pageteacher

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Interest Rates

• Source Christopher D. Merrett, The Future of
  Rural Communities in a Global Economy,
  University of Iowa Center for International
  Finance and Development. Available at
  http//www.uiowa.edu/ifdebook/issues/globalization
  /perspectives/merrett.shtml

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Carter and America

• Ineffectual leadership style
• Economic problems
• inflation, high interest rates, growing energy
  costs, gas shortages, decline of manufacturing
• Goals reduce energy use, energy independence
• International issues instability in the Middle
  East

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Economic Crisis

• End of the 1970s, interest rates on homes at 17
• OPEC embargo of 1973 had long impact
• Oil prices remained high
• US cars averaged only 13.4 mpg
• Oil crisis of 1979 led to shortages, lines at gas
  stations.
• Carter urged conservation, talked about an Age
  of Limits. Americans did not want to hear it.

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Foreign Policy Woes

• Major goals ending US support for repressive
  regimes,
• Seeking peace the Camp David Peace Accords
• The first major confrontation with militant Islam

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Iranian Hostage Crisis

• Iranians seize US Embassy.
• Capture 66 people for 444 days
• Americans uneasy with government powerlessness
• Failed rescue effort, April, 1980

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Carter Approval Ratings
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Election of 1980

• Republican
• Ronald Reagan

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