In an effort to attain social reform, the Populist Party swayed the outcome of elections and platforms in the latter 19th century. ... Like any third party, the Populist Party brought about issues too often ignored, while posing as a deciding factor in the outcome of elections. ... They later merged into the Democratic party supporting bimetallism, yet there were still some of each side that began to feel that these "popocrats" were doing the worst for their individual party. In a yet hushed victory, the Populist Party had achieved a goal greater than the election platform openly display...

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" Throughout the book, readers are able to see Chris Matthews's attitude towards major political parties, democrat and republican. ... Because he favors republicans, he pinpoints the flaws of the Democratic Party. ... Moreover, Hardball has the third part of the book to describe the "Deals" made in politics. ...

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The Farmers' Alliances agitated for railroad regulation, tax reform, and unlimited coinage of silver and attempted to influence the established political parties. Growth was so rapid, however, that interest in a third party began to increase; in 1891 delegates from farm and labor organizations met in Cincinnati. No decision was made to form a political party, but when the Republican and Democratic parties both straddled the currency question at the 1892 presidential conventions, a convention was held at Omaha, and the Populist party was formed. At this time a third party called the People...

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First, the Southern Democrats, a party made up of former Confederate leaders and other members of the aristocracy, strived to end the perceived control of the North over the South. ... Third, a group of Northern politicians who were strongly opposed to slavery, unsympathetic to the South, wanted protection for the freed slaves, and wanted to keep their majority in Congress formed the Radical Republicans. ... The Radical Republicans surfaced as the country's dominant political party and with the majority in Congress they set the goals for reconstruction. ...

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The third influence on LBJ's life was President Franklin D. ... Third, it "expanded and reorganized" the executive office and made it the head and uncontested leader of the government. Finally, the New Deal "transformed the American party system." ... Third, it vowed to "defend the free world" from the advances of communism. ... The third component of was liberal universalism-"the belief in the fundamental unity and sameness of all mankind" (Schulman 84). ...

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T.S. One of the main leaders of the movement for the defense of the right civiler and important defender of the not violent resistance to the repression racial. King was born in Atlanta (Georgia), January 15 of January 1929, older son of a minister Baptists. It entered in the Morehouse Colle...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil...

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The "New" woman secured her right to vote and forced congress to recognize her equality, all while breaking sexual tensions with contraception and leading The Women's Party to new heights. ... One third of African American families fell below the poverty level and black unemployment was at a rate of 30 to 40 percent, two and half times as much as whites. ...

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Booth by happening to pass the time, the crowd took his attention time enough to see a sufficiency of the conflict, to prove to him, that the parties were obstinately beat on each side not to yield. ... Not to mislead however, they were still black men at a time when being a black man meant that you were little better then third class. ...

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Oscar Berland, one of the authors for The Emergence of the Communist Perspective on the Negro Question states, "The Party's first involvement with the Negro question was not all strain and stress. ... Thirdly, blacks have seen a lot of hate and racism from the whites through hate groups and name calling. ...

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Kaplan begins her essay on a personal note discussing her happiness at his election win and the idea of, "how Barack was close to me he could have been in third grade with me. " Kaplan is explain the President Obama grew up and experience what other typical black children experience. ... Kaplan points to the reason why as, "all those new white converts started falling away from him like party confetti falling to earth all the things that had stirred people's imagination became, on the other side of the inaugural, targets for doubt and derision. " I agree with Kaplan to a point here. ...

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What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...

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