The Progressive Movement The progressive movement was an early twentieth century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life. ... First, the progressive movement worked to protect social welfare. ... Third, the progressive movement worked to create economic reform. ... A labor leader Eugene Debs began the American Socialist Party in 1900. ... Fourth, the progressive movement worked to foster efficiency. ...

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Woodrow Wilson was one of the prominent progressive leaders. ... Progressive movement wasn't so much a radical one but it more moderate in trying to fulfill democracy. The progressive movement was without a doubt a radical movement but they didn't completely forget about America's foundation. ... The progressive movement certainly had its flaws. ... Overall, the progressive movement had the success of creating the ideas for the implementation of programs that we use today....

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Though at the time when this book took place the Women's Liberation movement was in full swing though this movement did not have an important effect on Lakota culture because it just did not apply as Mary Crow Dog explained, "women's lib was mainly a white, upper middle-class affair of little use to a reservation woman." ... The first native feminist movement called Women of All Red Nations formed by a number of women from AIM was welcomed by the more traditional Lakota's, though when the women wanted to perform a Sundance that excluded men some of the religious leaders did not...

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The temperance movement of this time was the result of disgusted citizens and abused wives. ... Anthony led women's rights movement. ... Prison reform was not a movement led only by males. One of this movement's most famous leaders was Dorthea Dix, who after viewing prisons that had jailed mentally disabled alongside murders and other scum of society had written letters demanding the improvement of the prison system. ... Perhaps the most involved and important reform movement was abolitionism. ...

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They are detached from the decisions that their leaders make. ... The people in this future world are given a sense of movement so that they feel purposeful, though in reality their censurers have given that movement no meaning and purpose. ... But because there is so much movement, it is impossible to concentrate. ... Movement is a key way in which the government is censoring the world. Movement blocks nature out, as well. ...

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Economic reforms of the progressive movement included more government regulation of businesses. ... In one of his articles Lincoln Steffens, a journalist, explains that the corruption of government found in Tammany Hall: "Tammany leaders are usually the natural leaders of the people in these districts, and they are originally good-natured, kindly men. ... Social reforms of the Progressive movement also tackled the problems of poor living and working conditions and city slums. ... The Progressive movement set a pattern for future campaigns of economic, political and social reform in Americ...

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For example, George Washington owned tons of acres of land, Robert Morris was the foremost business and financial leader, and all of the men possessed a cosmopolitanism, which separated them from the masses. ... Republicanism, an underlying concept throughout the Constitution, the division of power between state and national governments, and the complex system of checks and balances and divided power were all designed as protections against mass movement that might threaten liberty and property. ...

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One of the leaders of the Second Great Awakening, Charles G. ... Finney and other leaders of the Second Great Awakening convinced thousands in the North to repent their sins and join churches. ... In the 1830s, the anti-slavery movement gained momentum. ...

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These quick changes can easily cause confusion among our leaders, and this results in poor decisions based on lack of current knowledge and direct involvement. ... The line of civil disobedience is drawn by our nation's leaders and it's their line and they mark it. ... In this movement and idea, the young are lost in its deep cracks of political separation.  ...

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Elements of the American eugenics movement were models for the Nazis, whose adaptation of eugenics culminated in the Holocaust. The eugenics movement coincided with one of the busiest times in U.S. immigration. ... The theories once touted in the early days of the Eugenics movement are clearly laid to rest just by this one discovery. ... Scientists, religious leaders, politicians, psychologists and sociologists alike discovered this early on. ...

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Democrats where unable to over throw Republican control, but the progressive movement did change party organizations at all levels. Changes occurred in the reduction of the spoils system, established the secret ballot, and striped party leaders of their power to nominate party candidates. ...

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Joseph Mallonee FRE Essay #2 Dr. Reeves AP U.S. History The American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. They also created new institution...

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"The republican movement combined Whigs, antislavery Democrats, and free soldiers who wished to make antislavery the dominant element-(Alexander 253). ... A war was the only way this was going to get resolved, and how it didn't happen sooner is a mystery to me" however I do understand that our political leaders could not find a solution to an everlasting problem, slavery....

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The Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK can be separated into different periods, each period led by a different leader. ... Suddenly everyone, including their new leader, wanted to be involved in such a daring and exciting organization. ... Simmons and the top leaders grew enormously rich by charging members a ten-dollar initiation fee, one-dollar monthly fee and six dollars and fifty cents for a white robe and hood. ... The government has taken action against the KKK for many years, especially during the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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However, do they have the right to exclude potential leaders that are avowed homosexuals just based on their sexual orientation and not their personal dexterity or aptitude. ... When assimilating this issue with the issue of excluding homosexual leaders, the Boy Scouts do not exclude atheists or agnostics because they"re atheist or agnostic it's because their beliefs and values do not match that of the organization of Scouting. ... It pains the Boy Scouts of America that so many people do not understand the reasoning of not allowing homosexuals to be leaders in scouting units. .....

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Many people view this movement as a way for Christians to sneak their religion into public schools through a back door. ... If students are raised with morals then someday they will be leaders of the country that will positive role models in that their actions are honest and noble. Would you rather have leaders with ethical values or one of which is conformed to the world in that he seeks to please his own desires and puts himself before others, lies, steals, and cheats? Let the Ten Commandments be examples to our children to rise up and become righteous leaders of future....

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The movement, letter tagged as "Manifest Destiny" was what drove American settlers to actively seek control of territories within the American continent and the Monroe Doctrine is what they later used to keep European nations from interfering with it. ... Manifest destiny was a phenomenon, a mindset, and a movement. ... Andrew Jackson used the pressure of treaties to convince tribal leaders to relocate west of the Mississippi River. ...

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Supreme Court also agrees that affirmative action is necessary because "In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open o talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity."... During the civil rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled that racially discriminatory practices are unconstitutional, and laws were created in order to end and compensate the members of the previously disadvantaged group. ... Many people in the civil rights movement saw the economic and social disparity between...

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Leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were motivated by their liberties announced in the constitution that protect and justified their rights and the fact that they were equal to men. ... The reformers who were enthused by religion campaigned against alcohol and promoted the temperance movement, which had a strong religious foundation. This movement was very successful, such that some states, like Maine, even banned the sale of alcohol. ...

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Albanian political leaders were dismissed, government sponsored Albanian schools closed and teachers fired. ... After the civil war and the civil rights movement, wee again would think that the trend of discrimination would finally stop in our country, however we are now faced with the major problem of how we, as Americans, group together people of Arab decent. ...

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Social mobility is defined as movement among and between classes. ... Standard of living- good economic times leads to low votes and bad economic times lead to more votes because they try to get the leader out of office. ...

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Explorers Explorers are the reason that we, the American people, are able to live in this beautiful land from coast to coast and enjoy personal freedoms. However that was not the reason for the first expedition set out for America. Christopher Columbus landed in America in 1492. He was sent by ...

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Under their circumstances, there would be no way to publish the people's ideas, either because their leaders think otherwise, or the type of government they hold, or both. ... Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. ...

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Either to help South Vietnam, which was highly impossible because South Vietnam had only consisted of armies with low morale, and all the corrupted leaders and officials, or to fight against communism, which was another hard task to accomplish because if they were to fight communism, they would have to fight communism in the surrounding countries, including Russia and China. ... The American troops had relied too much on the high tech equipment; in the forests it was impossible for them to track them down, because of all the movement going on from tree to tree. ...

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Through the Civil War, to the Civil Rights Movement, to our current battle of gay marriage. ... A government with three branches of government (the legislative, judicial, and executive branch) to provide a system of checks and balances, a leader of the nation in the form of "President", the ability to create laws, and the ability to control trade. ... The Constitution therefore decided to create a leader for the American people, the President. ...

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