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Moral Majority: US Political Action Group In The 1970s

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Location: Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Date: April 2, 2018 Moral Majority: The moral majority is a US political action group in the 1970s that president Jimmy Carter was involved in it. Throughout those years a majority of americans had broadly agreed that “free enterprise” was a good decision and that it was encouraged to both the board and the U.S. the moral majority was a group that was invented for agreeing/deciding whether to be okay with the rules that enforced traditional notions of family and morality, even if it looked like an oppressive government. Vietnamization: Nixon involved himself in the vietnamization. He created that new strategy that

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