Jennie Thorp Michigan History Chapter 19 Chapter 19 pp 344 348 1 Assess Gerald R Ford s a pre presidential career and b significance as president a Ford was vice president during the Watergate scandal b After becoming president Ford pardoned Nixon for all charges against him He tackled a lot of issues including runaway inflation depressed economy rising oil prices and shortages in energy He continued shuttle diplomacy in Middle East worked toward d tente with Soviet Union 2 Assess the political careers of a William Milliken b Coleman Young c Martha Griffiths d Philip A Hart and e John Engler pp 348 355 365 6 a 1960 state senate 1964 Lieutenant Governor 1969 governor when Romney resigned b Twenty years as the mayor of Detroit First black person to serve on Wayne County Council Elected to state senate before becoming mayor c Congresswoman wanted sex to be added to race ethnicity and religion One of only two women in Michigan House 1948 Six years later she went to Congress Worked on equal rights amendment with Ford Secured enough votes to get ERA passed d 1954 lieutenant governor Was endorsed by the Detroit News 18 years in U S State senate Cited the 1965 voting rights act and created Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore One of four floor managers for 1964 Civil Rights Act e Erased a substantial state budget deficit and improved the state s economy and lowering unemployment rate to 7 percent 3 Analyze a the evolution of the New Left in Michigan and b the role of Michigan State University professors in supporting the government of South Vietnam pp 355 60 a Student league for Industrial Democracy involved students in solving present day problems Wanted social change Became Students for Democratic Society Chief organizational expression of the New Left Inspired by the civil rights movement 1960 meeting in Ann Arbor white radicals and black students to protest segregation in the South Vietnam made things harder especially because of the draft They focused on resistance and revolution b American support U S Department used Diem as an informant Wanted technical assistance led to Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group MSU advisors went Saigon in 1955 Resettled tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees South Vietnamese generals assassinated Diem Fishel became a target for anti war protestors Communists won the war in 1975 4 Evaluate the changing environment for automobile manufacturing from the 1940s to the 1990s pp 319 360 61 369 70 a Sales plummeted during times of war Iranian Revolution made gas prices soar They went from 42 cents to 1 35 a gallon Problems arose with inferior quality internal management problems 1980 fuel efficient cars from Chrysler They introduced the minivan 1990s high profit margins on gas guzzling vehicles Stock market and other issues made gas prices go up effect profits Jennie Thorp Michigan History Chapter 19 5 Discuss the maritime history of the Great Lakes including a the on going debate over the 1975 loss of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald b the history of shipping losses on the lakes and c preservation of maritime history pp 361 63 a Argument over the hatches being ineffective and it collapsing because of the water b 6 000 boats sunk in the lakes more than 250 people died c Protect the wrecks from scavengers Michigan Bottomlands Preserves preserve the heritage for researchers and divers Can explore the wrecks at lighthouses 6 Describe the success of Michiganians in the performing arts pp 364 65 a Home of some of the nation s leading performers of both stage and screen Michael Moore world s 100 most influential Time magazine Tim Allen successful comedians James Earl Jones voices on movies Jeff Daniels ranks as one of Hollywood s most versatile leading men playing everything from villians and cads to heroes and romantic leads to tragic figures and lovably goofy idiots in movies of almost every genre