Evaluate how much the federal government's role in the United States economy changed from 1932 to 1980.
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From 1932 to 1980 the federal government's role in the economy grew dramatically, as the New Deal, wartime mobilization and the Great Society made Washington a regulator, employer and source of social insurance - although by the 1960s and 1970s a conservative backlash had begun to challenge that expansion.
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Goldwater is accepting a presidential nomination in 1964, so his purpose is to rally conservative voters against the expanding federal role - which makes his speech strong evidence that the expansion was large enough to provoke an organized backlash.
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Show continuity across parties (Republican Eisenhower funded the interstate highways) alongside the backlash, or connect the late-1970s criticism of federal spending to Reagan-era deregulation after 1980.
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